Study of human migration over 60 000 years

A project investigating human migration over the last 60 000 years will be discussed at a conference in South Africa next month, organisers said on Thursday.

The Genographic Project will take DNA samples from 100 000 people belonging to indigenous populations around the world. The hope is to demonstrate the migration routes followed by anatomically modern humans as they moved out of Africa - the origin of all humans alive today - and spread across the world.