The invention proved useful for
tracing human migration.
The article is about how specific genetic changes that either cause disease or protect against disease can help researchers
trace human migrations over thousands of years.
«It is great to see that what we call the standard model of human evolution gets confirmation from entirely separate evidence,» says population geneticist Luca Cavalli - Sforza of Stanford University in California, the first researcher to
trace human migrations with DNA.
Not exact matches
Although the first
humans left Africa some 100,000 years ago, a study published in 2013 found that some came back again around 3,000 years ago; this reverse
migration has left its
trace in African genomes.
This suggests that gut bacteria can be used to
trace early
human and animal
migrations, Moeller says.
By
tracing the spread of different strains of H. pylori, researchers have been able to
trace and date the
migration of modern
human ancestors out of Africa.
Older
traces of modern
humans previously discovered outside Africa, such as the roughly 100,000 - year - old remains from the Skhul and Qafzeh caves in Israel, were discarded by scientists as evidence of unsuccessful efforts at wider
migration.
These fragments are
traces of interbreeding that followed the «out of Africa»
human migration dating to about 60,000 years ago.
In this complex scenario, Teresa Margolles deals with material fragments of buildings, transporting them across borders and reassembling them remotely in large format sculptures, as a call to read these
traces as part of larger processes, events and social relations, such as
migration, international drug trade, or
human trafficking.