Most genetic studies focus on people from European ancestry. But Africa has the richest diversity and must be included in genetic databases.
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Population ebbs and flows are having geopolitical consequences.
Chinese politicians have looked toward policies to encourage couples to have more children to offset population decline. It hasn’t worked.
For the first time since 1961, deaths in China have outpaced births – and unlike that one-year decline, the downward trend is likely to continue.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is reducing life expectancy, decreasing birth rates and slowing down immigration. These changes may produce concerning trends in populations globally.
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Director of the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Professor in the Division of Human Genetics, University of the Witwatersrand
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