Abstract:The Out of Africa hypothesis, OOAH, was challenged recently in an extended mtDNA analysis, PPA (Progressive Phylogenetic Analysis), that identified the African human populations as paraphyletic, a finding that contradicted the common OOAH understanding that Hss had originated in Africa and invaded Eurasia from there. The results were consistent with the molecular Out of Eurasia hypoth...
Talk ChairHorng-Tzer YauHarvard Mathematics & CMSAModeratorFaidra MonachouHarvard CMSAOnlineRegistration is requiredPlease scan the code to registerFor more informationhttps://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/2022-ding-shum-lecture/ AbstractPrediction algorithms score individuals, assigning a number between zero and one that is often interpreted as an individual probability: a 0.7 “chance” that thi...