NS 04-08

Genetic differentiation versus geographical among Human populations

Genetic distance (measured here as sub-population differentiation, FST) and geographical distance (corrected as land routes) among pairs of > 50 globally-distributed human populations are highly correlated (r2 = 0.7679).


Figure © 2013 by Sinauer (after Handley et al., 2007); Text material © 2022 by Steven M. Carr