As genomic sequencing projects attempt ever more ambitious integration of genetic, molecular, and phenotypic information, a specialization of genomics has emerged, embodied in the subdiscipline of computational genomics. Models inherited from population genetics, phylogenetics, and human disease genetics merge with those from graph theory, statistics, signal processing, and computer science to ...

“We‘re all Africa,” according to a line from the official song of the 2010 Fifa World Cup held in South Africa, Shakira’s “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)”. And unlike John F. Kennedy’s tenuous claim to Berlinerdom, this statement of global solidarity and unity actually has a very sound scientific foundation. There is now overwhelming evidence and agreement that modern humans originated in Afr...