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BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Dr. Amy Maxmen, PhD is a Senior Reporter, Nature.com, San Francisco. Dr. Maxmen joined Nature in 2017, covering the entanglements of evolution, medicine, policy and of the people involved with research. Her stories have appeared in Nature, Wired and Newsweek, among other outlets. Amy's feature on the origin of humanity was anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015, and she won the 2016 Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers for a piece on Ebola. Before becoming a journalist, she received a PhD in evolution from Harvard. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble
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Little-studied ethnic groups on the continent are helping researchers to understand the movements of people who lived there tens of thousands of years ago.
Humankind’s early history in Africa is coming into sharper focus with a new study of 180 genomes from a dozen ethnic groups on the continent —…
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