{"id":671388,"date":"2010-02-19T09:07:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22730"},"modified":"2010-02-19T09:07:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:07:57","slug":"archbishop-tutu%e2%80%99s-dna-helps-show-african-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/671388","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Tutu\u2019s DNA Helps Show African Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22738\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/200px-Archbishop-Tutu-medium.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"Archbishop-Tutu\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>By Malcolm Ritter for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comcast.net\/articles\/news-science\/20100217\/US.SCI.African.DNA\/\">AP via comcast.net News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scientists who decoded the DNA of some southern Africans have found striking new evidence of the genetic diversity on that continent, and uncovered a surprise about the ancestry of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.<\/p>\n<p>They found, for example, that any two Bushmen in their study who spoke different languages were more different genetically than a European compared to an Asian. That was true even if the Bushmen lived within walking distance of each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we really want to understand human diversity, we need to go to (southern) Africa and we need to study those people,&#8221; said Stephan Schuster of Pennsylvania State University. He&#8217;s an author of the study, which appears in Thursday&#8217;s issue of the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The study also found 1.3 million tiny variations that hadn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Malcolm Ritter for AP via comcast.net News: Scientists who decoded the DNA of some southern Africans have found striking new evidence of the genetic diversity on that continent, and uncovered a surprise about the ancestry of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. They found, for example, that any two Bushmen in their study who spoke different languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OEQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}