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Photos by Robin Hammond @hammond_robin | One of the most fascinating facts I learned while working on National Geographic’s special issue on race: There is more genetic diversity among humans on the continent of Africa than in the rest of the world combined. How is that possible? Writer Elizabeth Kolbert explains: “All non-Africans today, the genetics tells us, are descended from a few thousand humans who left Africa maybe 60,000 years ago … Because they were just a small subset of Africa’s population, the migrants took with them only a fraction of its genetic diversity.”

Wow, right? To illustrate the diversity on the continent, I visited five groups, selected because each represented a different language. Researchers who study genetic diversity sometimes use Africa’s linguistic diversity as a guide. More than 2,000 languages—perhaps a third of all the world’s—are spoken there.

Photographed here: 1) Ngipeyok Ngikalei Epong, a Turkana nomadic pastoralist from Kenya. 2) Mazulezule Ndaki, a Hadza hunter-gatherer from Tanzania. 3) Isaac Adams, who identifies as Coloured and Khoi San from South Africa. 4) Leya Ewalan, a Turkana nomadic pastoralist from Kenya. 5) Nadunga Akonote Lowa, a Turkana nomadic pastoralist from Kenya.

Some of these photos appear in the magazine article “Skin Deep,” published in April 2018 as part of The Race Issue. The National Geographic special issue explored how race defines, separates, and unites us. Read the full story in the link in bio.

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