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Now this is on from SAGG's own site:

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20070011185812data_trunc_sys.shtml

I notice it's from a Texas University. I don't know if it's the one where that guy (whose name escapes me, blond-haired chap) works, committed single origin supporter, but it is interesting. However like most single origin theories it totally neglects the lenghth of time humans have been in Australia. A gene map by Cavalli-Sforza supports the idea of an expansion from India into Central asia at some time. I'll see if I can find it somewhere on the net.

I was always going to remember as soon as I logged off. Spencer Wells. Anyway if you haven't seen Cavalli-Sforza's maps I've found the European ones. No luck with the world yet:

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/94/15/7719/F2

I suspect the first one reflects movement from northwest Europe as much as from the Middle East. If anyone wants an argument I'll explain why I think the second one has something to do with the separate Aurignacian and Gravettian movements into Europe. The third seems pretty safe to call Indo-European expansion. Fourth possibly the Sea People, almost certainly Greek, Southern Italy and Western Anatolia anyway. The fifth seems to show an expansion from around the North Sea and Baltic through to Anatolia. Anyone got any comments?

Can't find world maps but they are in "The History and Geography of Human Genes". Very interesting if you get a chance to glimpse them.