Ancient ‘trace’ in Papuan genomes suggests previously unknown expansion out of Africa
- Our New Guinean Elders always maintain that We originated from here, in this island.Several major studies, published today, concur that virtually all current global human populations stem from a single wave of expansion out of Africa. Yet one has found 2% of the genome in Papuan populations points to an earlier, separate dispersal event – and an extinct lineage that made it to the islands of Southeast Asia […]
