Africans, Europeans, Asians, and Other Ethnic Groups: Humanity's Family History Gets Updated (Four Articles and an Abstract)

"Ancient 'Out of Africa' migration left stamp on European genetic diversity, Cornell-led study finds"
Cornell University Chronicle (February 20, 2008)

Who's related to who, around the world: a pretty good summary of recent findings.

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"Proportionally more deleterious genetic variation in European than in African populations"
Nature international weekly journal of science (February 21, 2008)

New and somewhat unexpected knowledge about humanity's immediate ancestry: Informative, but quite technical, discussion of recent findings.

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" Genotype, haplotype and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations"
Nature international weekly journal of science (February 21, 2008)

(abstract of the "Proportionately more deleterious genetic ...." article ("To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment")

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"Worldwide Human Relationships Inferred from Genome-Wide Patterns of Variation"
Science magazine (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (February 22, 2008)
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Somewhat technical discussion of recent findings.

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"Whites Genetically Weaker Than Blacks, Study Finds"
FOXNews.com (February 22, 2008)

An extensive, and reader-friendly, discussion of the history of Europeans, Asians, American Indians, and other ethnic groups: based on recent (and somewhat unexpected) findings.