Human migration

Where do you really come from? And how did you get to where you live today? DNA studies suggest that all humans today descend from a group of African ancestors who—about 60,000 years ago—began a remarkable journey.

The Genographic Project is seeking to chart new knowledge about the migratory history of the human species by using sophisticated laboratory and computer analysis of DNA contributed by hundreds of thousands of people from around the world.

Original page:
 https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/index.html

 

 

Map of early human migrations according to mitochondrial population genetics. (numbers are millennia before present)

Hypothesized world map of human migrations, with the North Pole at center. Africa, harboring the start of the migration, is at the top left and South America at the far right. Migration patterns are based on studies of mitochondrial (matrilinear) DNA. Letters represent haplogroups while colors and numbers represent thousands of years before present.

 

Original page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations

 

Another model of human migration based on Mitochondrial DNA.

Original page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_human_migrations

 

Evolutionary tree of Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups

 

 

Original page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup

Chronological development of European haplogroups

Bryan Sykes had claimed there were seven major mitochondrial lineages for modern Europeans but others now put the number at 10-12. These additional "daughters" generally include haplogroups I, M and W. A recent paper re-mapped European haplogroups as H, J, K, N1, T, U4, U5, V, X and W.

 

Original page: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup