Expanding and resolving the earliest modern human divergence through DNA

这个项目旨在扩大和解决现代人类最早的分歧。尽管现代人显然是从非洲进化出来的，但关于现代人进化的时间表并没有达成共识。考古证据表明有两个竞争者：东部和南部非洲。基因数据支持后者；该团队自己的数据显示，南部非洲KhoeSan点击语觅食者拥有现存最古老的人类血统。该项目将为KhoeSan血统生成大型线粒体基因组和全基因组序列数据。这有望缩短现代人出现的时间。

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.