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Nature 431, 562-566 (30 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/nature02842;
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Modelling the recent common ancestry of all living humans
If a common ancestor of all living humans is defined as an individual who is a genealogical ancestor of all present-day people, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) for a randomly mating population would have lived in the very recent past. However, the random mating model ignores essential aspects of population substructure, such as the tendency of individuals to choose mates from the same social group, and the relative isolation of geographically separated groups.
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