ND STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY LOOSELEAF GENETICS: FROM GENES TO GENOMES
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Author: HARTWELL, Leland, HOOD, Leroy, Goldberg, Michael
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education/stony Brook University
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Chapter 21, Problem 37P
As noted in Fig. 21.22, humans now living in Oceania (e.g, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Australia) represent an early offshoot in the spread of humans around the world from an origin in Africa.
| a. | Given these |
| b. | Explain why variants found in Denisovan DNA are found only in modern humans living in Southeast Asia and Oceania but nowhere else on earth. |
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