Just learned that human genetic diversity is pretty low compared with many species, especially other homonids. It is said that one chimpanzee tribe has more genetic variation than the entire human species. One possible cause for this was a catastrophic supervolcanic event some 75,000 years ago, which may have reduced our own species to as [...]
On the Relative Lack of Genetic Diversity in our Species.
January 19th, 2009 · by John · 8 Comments
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