The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five-year genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from over 100,000 people across five continents..

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Recent single-origin hypothesis — The single-origin hypothesis (or Out-of-Africa model) is one of two accounts of the origin of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens. Because of ...  > read more

Neandertal interaction with Cro-Magnons — Neanderthals apparently co-existed with anatomically modern humans beginning some 100,000 years ago. However, about 45,000 years ago, at about the ...  > read more

Introduction to genetics — Genetics is the study of how living things receive common traits from previous generations. These traits are described by the genetic information ...  > read more

Multiregional hypothesis — The multiregional origin hypothesis of human species holds that some, or all, of the genetic variation between the contemporary human races is ...  > read more

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