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Global mobility and the break-up of human population isolates – neglected mechanisms in health, demographics, and anthropology

Throughout the greatest part of our evolutionary history, we were living in small and isolated tribal communities (1). Such a set-up ensured better survival in harsh environments and created distinctive genetic structure of groups that maintained sufficient level of isolation from one another. The traces of such events are clearly visible even today. For example, we are able to discern genetic origin of individuals from small villages that have maintained their genetic distinctiveness due to geographical isolation (2).

genetics; isolate; demographics

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