http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1264 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/women-move <!--paging_filter--><p>The conventional wisdom that men have spread their genes across the world as they traveled for war, exploration, trade or work turns out to be wrong. Instead, over the course of history, women's genes have traveled more widely across the globe as they have married and gone to live with their husbands' families. "Differences in migration rates between men and women can be measured by studying their genes," says Mark Seielstad, who wrote a Ph.D. thesis about the topic three years ago. Seielstad is now a research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health's Program for Population Genetics.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/women-move">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:14:30 -0400 70652986 3008 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu