Scientists find great genetic differences among southern Africans

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 17:14 in Biology & Nature

The genomes of four Bushmen and one Bantu were sequenced or partially sequenced. 'If we really want to understand human diversity, we need ... to study those people,' lead author of the study says. Scientists have long known that natives of southern Africa are genetically quite distinct from people in the rest of the world, but a new study in which the genomes...

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