Women migrate more often than men.
The rate of intercontinental migrations of women throughout history has been about eight times that of men. Mark T. Seielstad of Harvard and Eric Minch and Luca Cavalli-Sforza of Stanford whose report appears in the November issue of Nature Genetics. Mark Stoneking, an anthropoligist and population geneticist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, wrote a commentary on the report. Nature Genetics on the web.