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Sep 04 2008

Recommended Reading: Mapping Human History

Published by AnneH under book reviews, recommended reading

For more than a century anthropologists have studied the multitude of cultures and ethnicities that exist across the globe, delving deep into the various ways that populations develop their own unique identities. With the development of genetic anthropology over the last 15 years, scientists have begun to examine whether these cultural identities align with [...]

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Aug 14 2008

Recommended Reading: “The Seven Daughters of Eve”

Published by AnneH under recommended reading

If anybody could turn the history of genetic anthropology into a page-turner, it would be Bryan Sykes. Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, has spent the better of part the last 25 years decoding the mystery of our species’ genetic ancestry through mitochondrial DNA analysis. He recounts his work [...]

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