Of Frogs and Men

For those interested in the biogeography of our own species, especially in relation to Africa, there’s an interesting new paper out in the European Journal of Human Genetics that deals with the geographic origin of the aboriginal populations of the Canary Islands. Unsurprisingly, many of the haplotypes are similar to those from populations in Northern Africa. However, they do posit a model of frequent migration between islands which goes somewhat against previous notions of colonization via “sequential island-hopping.”