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HL 1 How the Genome Explains Who We Are con riassuntino + ANTENATO UNICO

DOMANDA: antenato unico o plurimo?
RISPOSTA: Unico (fuori dall' Africa). In Africa è un gran casino, probabilmente plurimo.
Chiarimenti al cap.1: "How the Genome Explains Who We Are".

E che sia chiaro: Eva era una popolazione, non una persona!
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A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to unders...





How the Genome Explains Who We Are
Note:1@@@@@@@@@Cos é il DNA e perché é utile a ricostruire il passato. Due ipotesi: 1 out Africa (antenato comune x il sapiens) e 2 Multiregional (sapiens emersi ovunque da incroci di altri ominidi). Vince la prima, ma x l Africa i dubbi restano. Il sapiens spazza via gli altri. Tutto molto piú complicato di come pensavamo. Le pretese di capire si ridimensionano. Il DNA é un puzzle e noi ne passiamo una parte ai figli ma una parte sempre piú piccola man mano che ascendiamo finché entriamo in un buco nero. Quando parliamo di Eva parliamo di popolazioni nn di individui. Anni 2000 la mappatura del genoma e le nuove ricerche. Il nuovo antenato comune: in sud africa. Smentita l idea di una mutazione decisiva che ci ha reso umani. Piû probabile che l ambiente abbia attivato mutazioni giá presenti e innescato un processo auto rinforzante.Lo stato dell arte500-700m probabile separazione tra Neanderthal e Sapiens.400m N é giá in Europa300m primi fossili S100m S in medio oriente. N in sud europa.50m SS in medio oriente.40m ibridi N e S. Poi N si estingue.

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twin chains of about three billion chemical building blocks (six billion in all)
Note:Dove é codificato il ns genoma

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What we call a “gene” consists of tiny fragments of these chains,
Note:Un migliaio di blocchi

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In between the genes is noncoding DNA, sometimes referred to as “junk”
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order of the letters can be read by machines
Note:Emissione luminosa di diversi colori a seconda della lettera

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These differences are due to random errors in copying of genomes (known as mutations)
Note:Differenze occasionali nella copia del dna. Decisive nello studio del passato

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The higher the density of differences separating two genomes on any segment, the longer it has been since the segments shared a common ancestor
Note:Distanza dall antenato. Assunto: le mutazioni si susseguono a ritmo costante.

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the ancestors of modern humans lived in Africa.
Note:Una conclusione a cui si é arrivati arrivate ndagando l antenato comune.

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This finding became an important part of the triumphant synthesis of archaeological and genetic and skeletal evidence
Note:Anni 80 90

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“Mitochondrial Eve,” lived sometime after 200,000 years ago.
Note:L antenato. Tempo calcoplato dal ritmo delle mutazini

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The best current estimate is around 160,000
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humans living in many parts of Africa and Eurasia descend substantially from an early dispersal (at least 1.8 million years ago) of Homo erectus,
Note:L ipotesi confutata con l antenato comune. Ipotesi multiregionale MR. MR: nn esiste un antenato comune x il sapiens (é uscito qua e lá dall incontro di vari ominidi). Out of Africa: esiste un antenato comune migrato dallAfrica. Oggi AOA nel mondo ma MR in Africa

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humans today largely descend from a much later expansion from Africa.
Note:L ipotesi MR ipotizza una dispersio dell erectus di 2000000 di anni.

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Anthropological evidence pointed to a likely scenario for what occurred.
Note:A supporto do out of Africa.

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very limited evidence older than around fifty thousand years.
Note:Strumenti e ossa fuori dall Africa

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Neanderthals, who had evolved in Europe by around four hundred thousand years ago
Note:Sparito 40000 anni fa. Dopo pochi millenni dall arrivo del sapiens

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the spread of an anatomically modern human population whose ancestors included “Mitochondrial Eve,”
Note:Ha spazzato via gli altri ominidi

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The Siren Call of the Genetic Switch
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exuberance about the power of the discipline to provide simple explanations.
Note:80 e 90… gli anni della vanitá

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genes could also be the cause of that spread,
Note:Un uomo diverso che sapeva muoversi e adattarsi

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a genetic change might explain how we came to be behaviorally distinct from our predecessors
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the rise in frequency of a single mutation of a gene affecting the biology of the brain,
Note:La svolta x Richard Klein. L uomo moderno é frutto di una mutazione.

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innovative tools
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complex behavior.
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simple explanations for great mysteries
Note:Il marchio dell esuberanza

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Svante Pääbo,
Note:Un protagonista

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discovered two mutations in the gene FOXP2 that seemed to be candidates for propelling the great changes that occurred after around fifty thousand years ago.
Note:Una mutazione candidata

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these changes affect the formation of sounds.
Note:I gatti fatti con quella mutazione miagolano diversamente. Il gene del lingiaggio?

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This change is absent in Neanderthals,
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The sad truth is that it is possible to count on the fingers of two hands the examples like FOXP2 of mutations that increased in frequency
Note:C é molto di piú. Noi nn sappiamo ancora leggere il genoma e giâ le mutazioni singolari abbondano.

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I expect that the findings will be so complicated—with so many individual genetic changes contributing to what makes humans distinctive—that few people will find the answer comprehensible.
Note:Pessimismo

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no intellectually elegant and emotionally satisfying
Note:Il presumibile risultato finale.

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explanation based on migrations and population mixture is the subject of this book.
Note:Ad ogni modo

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One Hundred Thousand Adams and Eves
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“Mitochondrial Eve,”
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It has fostered the mistaken impression that all of our DNA comes from precisely two ancestors
Note:Espressione ingannevole

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The truth is that the genome contains the stories of many diverse ancestors—tens of thousands of independent genealogical lineages,
Note:La veritá

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genome is not one continuous sequence from a single ancestor but is instead a mosaic.
Note:Mosaico

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A genome consists of twenty-three chromosomes,
Note:Cromosomi. Le tessere del puzzle... 23x2=46

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Twenty generations in the past, the number of ancestors is almost a thousand times greater than the number of ancestral stretches of DNA in a person’s genome, so it is a certainty that each person has not inherited any DNA from the great majority of his or her actual ancestors. These calculations mean that a person’s genealogy, as reconstructed from historical records, is not the same as his or her genetic inheritance.
Note:Troppo casino x risalire

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Queen Elizabeth II of England almost certainly inherited no DNA from William of Normandy, who conquered England in 1066
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Going back deeper in time, a person’s genome gets scattered into more and more ancestral stretches of DNA
Note:Antenati da cui nn ereditiamo nulla

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so we inherit DNA from nearly everyone in our ancestral population who had a substantial number of offspring
Note:Non abbiamo un antenato ma una popolazione.

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we reach a point where everyone descends from the same ancestor, beyond which it becomes impossible to obtain any information
Note:Il buco nero della genetica

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For mitochondrial DNA this black hole occurs around 160,000 years ago, the date of “Mitochondrial Eve.”
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For the great majority of the rest of the genome the black hole occurs between five million and one million years ago,
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The Story Told by the Multitudes in Our Genomes
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In 2001, the human genome was sequenced for the first time—which
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By 2006, companies began selling robots that reduced the cost of reading DNA letters by more than ten thousandfold
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test whether the history of our species suggested by the whole genome was the same as that told by mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome.
Note:Cosa diventava possobile. Avevamo tutto il DNA e nn solo un pezzo.

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evidence that after the separation of non-African and African populations, there was an extended period in the shared history of non-Africans when populations were small,
Note:Il collo di bottiglia

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for example, a small band of people crossing the Sahara into North Africa, or from Africa into Asia.
Note:Esempio di collo di botiglia

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Our history may not be as simple as the story of a dominant group that was immediately successful wherever it went.
Note:Tuttavia

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How the Whole-Genome Perspective Put an End to Simple Explanations
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the San hunter-gatherers of southern Africa.
Note:La parte del leone tra tratta candidati ad antenato comune. Analisi a tutto genoma.

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the separation had begun by around two hundred thousand years ago
Note:Il primo moderno

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the density of mutations separating San genomes from non-San genomes is uniformly high,
Note:Niente distacchi netti

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natural selection was not likely to take the simple form of changes in a small number of genes, as Klein had imagined.
Note:Non basta un gene. Ora lo sappiamo.

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we have been successful in identifying selection on mutations like these because they have risen rapidly from low to high frequency, resulting in a large number of people today sharing a recent ancestor
Note:Esempio della mutazione che ha reso il latte digeribile in etá adulta. Altri cambiamenti sono duri da identificare

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detectable episodes of natural selection such as those that have facilitated the digestion of cow’s milk into adulthood are an exception.
Note:Altri nn possono essere rivelati statisticamente

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found natural selection for increased height, blonder hair, bluer eyes, larger infant head size, larger female hip size, later growth spurt in males, and later age of puberty in females.
Note:Nonostante i limiti molte selezioni sono state individuate. Aggiungici la statura

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they are beginning to investigate human variation in cognitive and behavioral traits,
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Alla fine si arriva lÌ

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the great change in human behavior suggested by the archaeological records
Note:Spiegare il puzzle di Klein

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The mutations necessary to facilitate modern human behavior were already in place,
Note:L ipotesi piú probabile. L ambiente come attivatore.

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a self-reinforcing cycle.
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How the Genome Can Explain Who We Are
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massive mixtures of differentiated populations; sweeping population replacements and expansions;
La storia dlle migrazioni ricostruita dal genoma é zeppa di sorprese