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# Human migration

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  For the general concept of species omving around, see migration. For people moving data around see data migration.

mtDNA-based chart of large human migrations.

"Human migration" means any movement by humans from one locality to another (migration), often over long distances or in large groups. Humans are known to have migrated extensively throughout history and prehistory.

Migration and population isolation is one of the four evolutionary forces (along with natural selection, genetic drift, and mutation). The study of the distribution of and change in allele (gene variations) frequencies under such influences is the discipline of Population genetics. See Proto-Indo-Europeans.

Scheme of Indo-European migrations from ca. 4000 to 1000 BC according to the Kurgan hypothesis. The purple area corresponds to the assumed Urheimat (Samara culture, Sredny Stog culture). The red area corresponds to the area which may have been settled by Indo-European-speaking peoples up to ca. 2500 BC; the orange area to 1000 BC.

The movement of populations in modern times has continued under the form of both voluntary migration within one's region, country, or beyond, and involuntary migration (which includes slave trade, Trafficking in human beings and ethnic cleansing). The people who migrate are called migrants, or, more specifically, emigrants, immigrants or settlers, depending on historical setting, circumstance and perspective.

## [edit] External links

- Metropolitan Museum page on Lapita culture
- An mtDNA view of the peopling of the world by Homo sapiens
- National Geographic: Atlas of the Human Journey (Haplogroup-based human migration maps)
- Journey of Mankind : the Peopling of the World
- Stalker's Guide to International Migration
- Diplomacy Monitor - Migration
- Global Culture: essays on migration and globalization

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