Human history is written in everyone's genome

BioNews - Human history is written in everyone's genome: Two scientists claim to have pushed the boundaries of what can be learned about the ancestral history of the human race from one person's genome. Dr Richard Durbin and Dr Heng Li used information from the genomes of only seven people to show that humans living in Europe and China endured a severe population bottleneck between 10,000 and 60,000 years ago. 'Each human genome contains information from the mother and the father, and the differences between these at any place in the genome carry information about its history', Dr Li said.