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Contact: Dr. Mark Achtman
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Caption: The migration paths taken by modern man as he colonized the world. 60,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left his original home in East Africa -- taking the bacterium Helicobacter pylori with him. The abbreviation "kyears" stands for thousand years.
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
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