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Despite the difficulties, the scientists made some
myth-shattering discoveries. One of them jumps
right off the book's cover: a color map of world ge-
netic variation has Africa on one end of the spec-
trum and Australia on the other. Because
Australia's aborigines and sub-Saharan Africans
share such superficial traits as skin color and body
shape, they were widely assumed to be closely re-
lated. But their genes tell a different story. Of all hu-
mans, Australians are most distant from the
Africans and most closely resemble their neigh-
bors, the southeast Asians. 61
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