The Ex Cormozome Is a Female Colored Chromozone and Its Relationship to the Genome

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The application of a gender to these questions is not purely hypothetic, al right? Because we can separately look at the dna from the patrilina line in the metrilinial line. And so by looking at the ex cormozome and solving the system of equations, one can extrapolate out what the male and female contribution to different events would have been. Two to understand the process of sex bias in a mixture processes of different populations. The oldest common male ancestor is about twice as deep as that of the most recent common female ancestor. A mitocondrial differentiation across groups tends to be lower on a short geographic scale and potentially higher on a large geographic scale.

Human beings like to divide themselves into groups, and then cooperate, socialize, and reproduce with members of their own group. But they’re not very absolutist about it; groups tend to gradually (or suddenly) intermingle, as people explore, intermarry, or conquer each other. David Reich has pioneered the use of genetic data in uncovering the history of ancient humanity: what groups existed where and when, and how they interacted. The result is a picture of churning populations in constant flux, including “ghost populations” that no longer exist today.

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David Reich received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Oxford. He is currently a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. Among his awards are the Dan David Prize, the National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, the Wiley Prize, the Darwin-Wallace Medal, and the Massry Prize. He is the author of Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past.

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