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The 'Out of Africa' or 'Eve' concept has intuitively bothered me for three major reasons:

1.Why should we presume Africa as a spacial unit as opposed to say 'Savannahstan'?-a vast region of grasslan...
posted by Robert Browne
August 5, 2009 @ 6:26 PM

Regarding the genetic data;Y chromosome and mtDNA markers are sex-linked and therefore can be lost over generations,for example:I have no Y chromosome nor mtDNA from either my maternal Grandfather nor...
posted by Robert Browne
August 5, 2009 @ 7:37 PM

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