Why are modern Africans more genetically diverse than people of other regions?

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The oldest Homo sapiens fossils come from Ethiopia. The large number of differences among African populations indicates that these populations have existed and have been accumulating random mutations for a very long time. Furthermore, most genetic variation seen in non-African populations is a subset of the variation found inside Africa. This is evidence that founder effects occurred when subsets of the African population left to colonize the rest of the world.

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