Expanding and resolving the earliest modern human divergence through DNA

通过 DNA 扩大并解决现代人类最早的分歧

• 批准号: DP170103071
• 负责人: Prof Vanessa Hayes
• 金额: $ 19.72万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP170103071
• 关键词: Expanding; resolving; earliest; modern; human

This project aims to expand and resolve the earliest modern human divergence. Although it is clear modern humans emerged from Africa, there is no consensus on the timeline of modern human evolution. Archaeological evidence suggests two contenders: east and southern Africa. Genetic data supports the latter; the team’s own data shows that the southern African KhoeSan click-speaking forager peoples have the oldest extant human lineages. This project will generate large mitochondrial genome and whole genome sequence data for KhoeSan lineages. This is expected to narrow the time of modern human emergence.

该项目旨在扩大和解决现代人类最早的分歧。尽管很明显现代人类起源于非洲，但对于现代人类进化的时间轴尚未达成共识。考古证据表明有两个竞争者：东非和南部非洲。遗传数据支持后者；该团队自己的数据显示，南部非洲讲咔嗒声的 KhoeSan 采集者拥有现存最古老的人类血统。该项目将为 KhoeSan 谱系生成大型线粒体基因组和全基因组序列数据。预计这将缩短现代人类出现的时间。