African Genomics: Human Evolution Part I
In Part 1 of this talk, Dr. Sarah Tishkoff (U. Pennsylvania) begins with an overview of the evolution of modern humans and their migration out of Africa. She explains how and why population geneticists study both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA and how DNA comparisons have allowed scientists to determine when distinct hominid groups diverged and when and where these populations migrated across the globe.
Topics
- evolution
- migration
- population geneticist
- nuclear DNA
- mitochondrial DNA
- hominid
- migrate
- globe
- population
- African
- integrative genomics
- evolutionary history
- genomic variation
- human
- genetic drift
- bottleneck
- founder
- heterozygosity
- Neanderthal
- Homo sapiens