SOUTHEAST Asia is the center from which modern man spread to other parts of the world, after Africa,” Professor Sangkot Marzuki told Tempo firmly several weeks ago.

Together with 98 other Asian scientists sitting in the Pan-Asia Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Consortium under the auspices of the Human Genome Organization, the Director of the Eijkman Institute created shock waves. They completed their latest research with regard to the genetic