Michael Cross
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/ 12 May 2005

The river out of Eden

Family can be embarrassing. In the analogue age, at least, we could be creative in claiming descent from aristocrats or sheep-stealers. The digital world lays all our secrets bare. We know we are all descended from a single woman who lived 150 000 years ago in Africa. The question that intrigues us is, what happened in between?