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Nature 395, 636-639 (15 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27071

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Human evolution:  Towards a genetic history of China

Alberto Piazza1

Scholars of human evolution are well aware that physical traits are mostly adaptive, reflecting the geography or environment — rather than the history — of those who carry them. Therefore, they will appreciate a paper by Chu and thirteen other Chinese co-authors1 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, who have done a genetic analysis of China at a finer resolution than any attempted so far.

  1. Alberto Piazza is in the Dipartimento di Genetica, Biologia e Biochimica, Università di Torino, via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy.
    e-mail: Email: a.piazza@cios.to.cnr.it