Ethiopian Genetics

We all know Lucy or Dinkenesh as she is called in Ethiopia. She has been a source of pride for Ethiopia for more than 30 years now. Ethiopians love to point out that their country is the birthplace of humanity. Well now it seems that we have even better proof that it was our ancestors that have populated the earth over thousands of years. The LA Times and others report that "...the journal Science, offers striking evidence that an ancient band of explorers left what is now Ethiopia..." And to make it even better they added "...the researchers were able to show that humans spread around the globe through a series of migrations that originated from a single location near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia."

The evidence this report uses is "..the DNA of 938 people from 51 distinct populations around the world..." From these DNA samples they say that they have mapped the migration of people for the last hundred thousand (100,000) years and have traced it all back to Ethiopia.

For those who want to register and don't mind paying a fee you can read the original study at Nature International Weekly Journal of Science.