—“ty in one social group of fifty-five cire ion,” as one auty  it—and this would explain why.

    Because ly descended from a small founding population, t been timeenougo provide a source of great variability. It seemed a pretty severebloo multiregionalism. “After tate academic told ton Post,“people  be too concerned about tiregional ttleevidence.”

    But all of te capacity for surprise offered by t Mungo people of ern Ne tralian National University reported t t ofted at 62,000 years—and t to be“genetically distinct.”

    to tomically modern—just like you andme—but carried an extinct genetic lineage. oc s Africa in t past.

    “It turned everyt.

    to turn up. Rosalind iongeneticist at titute of Biological Antudying betaglobingenes in modern people, found ts t are common among Asians and tralia, but  in Africa. t genes, sain,arose more t in Africa, but in east Asia—long before modern o account for to say t ancestors ofpeople noingly,t gene—to speak—turns up in modern populations inOxfordshire.

    Confused, I  to see  titute, on spent udent days. ralian, from Brisbane originally,  at time.

    “Don’t kno s be t on moresomberly, “tic record supports t-of-Africa  ters, icists prefer not to talk about. ts ofinformation t o us if only and it, but  yet.

    e’ve barely begun.” So be dra on ence of Asian-origingenes in Oxfordsells us ot tuation is clearly complicated. “All  tage is t it is very untidy and  really know why.”

    At time of our meeting, i