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FEMS Focus: During your research, you said that we came from one single ancestor in Africa. Is this correct? Spencer Wells (SW): Well, we can trace back to a single individual who gave rise to all Y-chromosomes or the mtDNA types of today. They weren’t the only people alive at that point but they were the ones who were lucky enough to leave their lineage down to the present-day. Source: nationalgeographic.com
FEMS Focus: During your research, you said that we came from one single ancestor in Africa. Is this correct? Spencer Wells (SW): Well, we can trace back to a single individual...
