Curious... I read this news recently... and back then it was heralded as proof that mankind arose in Africa and spread through the world at pretty much the correct time frame as human genetic variability and archeological studies suggest.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/22/...uch_as_us/ Wrote:What they found was was "clear support for the out-of-Africa hypothesis".
"Our results clearly support the anthropological data, and other genetic data, that explain how humans came from Africa into the Middle East and started to spread from there," Brandt added.
The study even seemed to back up the theory that human population of the planet was begun by a small group of pioneers who managed to cross the Sahara and escape the continent.
"There is a population bottleneck between Africa and the rest of the world. Very few people were involved in the initial migration from Africa," Brandt continued. "When you look at the phylogenetic tree from the virus, it's exactly the same as what the anthropologists have told us."
The results also seem to back up the theory of a land bridge over the Bering Strait, due to the fact that a Asian strain was found in Texas.
