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Summary

World map of human migrations, with the North Pole at center. Made in 2005.

Africa, harboring the start of the migration, is at the top left and South America at the far right. Migration patterns are based on studies of mitochondrial (matrilinear) DNA. Dashed lines are hypothetical migrations.

Numbers represent thousand years before present.

The blue line represents area covered in ice or tundra during the last great ice age.

The letters are the mitochondrial DNA haplogroups (pure motherly lineages); Haplogroups can be used to define genetic populations and are often geographically oriented. For example, the following are common divisions for mtDNA haplogroups:

African: L, L1, L2, L3
Near Eastern: J, N
Southern European: J, K
General European: H, V
Northern European: T, U, X
Asian: A, B, C, D, E, F, G (note: M is composed of C, D, E, and G)
Native American: A, B, C, D, and sometimes X
The letters I, J, K shown in Europe are apparently included by mistake, as they refer to Y-DNA haplogroups.

The dashed path for X, stopping in Iceland, gestures at the "Solutrean hypothesis", an idea discussed in the popular media at the time the map was made but mostly discredited since.

Data derivation

Image:Northern icesheet hg.png shows the region that was covered by ice or tundra in the last ice age

All migration data based on mitomap.
Geographic data from File:Last glacial vegetation map.png
and adding the following data File:Ice Age Temperature.png we get this interesting result File:Human-migration-temperature.jpg

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	01:54, 2 July 2015	889 × 635 (274 KB)	Chronus	Reverted to version as of 03:10, 22 May 2012
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	03:10, 22 May 2012	889 × 635 (274 KB)	84user	Reverted to version as of 19:10, 12 August 2005
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	19:10, 12 August 2005	889 × 635 (274 KB)	Avsa
	21:05, 5 August 2005	536 × 380 (80 KB)	Stevertigo (usurped)	reupload with similar changes, but without compression/artifacts
	21:00, 5 August 2005	536 × 380 (30 KB)	Stevertigo (usurped)	altered brightness contrast - black/brown blending was distracting in last version
	20:30, 17 July 2005	536 × 380 (110 KB)	Avsa
	18:08, 16 July 2005	745 × 380 (99 KB)	Avsa	Map of human races migration, according to the mithocondrial dna. All data based on mitomap http://www.mitomap.org/WorldMigrations.pdf I ignored all data I could not understand (for example a dotted line, the +/- and the letters). If someone explains to
	18:03, 16 July 2005	745 × 380 (99 KB)	Avsa	Map of human races migration, according to the mithocondrial dna. All data based on mitomap http://www.mitomap.org/WorldMigrations.pdf I ignored all data I could not understand (for example a dotted line, the +/- and the letters). If someone explains to

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