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Letter: Einstein's roots

Published 14 September 2011

From Carrie Osborne

There is another answer to Debora MacKenzie’s question to Naledi Pandor: “Will the next Einstein come from Africa?” (16 July, p 25).

If we could look at the genealogy of Einstein’s Y-chromosome, we would find that the first one did.

Monkey Bay, Malawi

Issue no. 2830 published 17 September 2011

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