World Map (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

World Map

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World map with land area resized to represent modern human genetic diversity and colour representing Neanderthal plus Denisovan ancestry. As can be seen, contributions from other populations to the Homo sapiens gene pool are small and unevenly distributed. Africa is disproportionately large because the great human genetic diversity - and hence the roots of humanity - are found here.

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James Cheshire/Mark G. Thomas

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