Posted on 10/08/2015 2:10:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Science reports that the first prehistoric genome from Africa has been sequenced. The DNA was obtained from the inner ear bones of a 4,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Mota Cave by John and Kathryn Arthur of the University of South Florida. Located in the highlands of Ethiopia, Mota Cave’s cool temperatures helped to preserve the hunter-gatherer’s rare genetic material. Andrea Manica and Marcos Gallego Llorente of the University of Cambridge found that the man, who has been dubbed “Mota,” had brown eyes, dark skin, and three gene variants associated with living at high altitudes. Mota’s genome was compared with samples from 40 populations in Africa and 81 populations in Europe and Asia. The team found that Mota was most closely related to the Ari, a group that still lives in the Ethiopian highlands. But the DNA that the Ari and many other ethnic groups carry and that Mota lacks suggests that the descendants of Middle Eastern farmers migrated deep into Africa between 3,000 and 3,500 years ago and mixed with the local populations. (Middle Eastern grains from this time period have been found in Africa.) “It must have been lots of people coming in or maybe they had new crops that were very successful,” Manica explained.
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High altitude genes? I had a pair of those when I used to fit better into that kind of pants.
Um, how did they know he had dark skin?
I only ask this because I already KNOW that DNA testing has been proven for close to 20 years to be able to determine the RACE of a suspect’s DNA.
This means our police COULD be “profiling” based upon best science, best evidence but have been forbidden from doing so via DOJ edicts.
Move along, nothing to see here.
More crap!
Back in the day I learned that Pakis were Caucasians....YMMV.
Curiously, early DNA studies showed that Australian aboriginals were caucasian too. I’d have to poke around a bit to find decent studies but there are probably a LOT of surprises out there.
Again, the point being that skin color does not = “race”.
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Hindi are too.
Not a chance!
Only the African Bushmen have DNA older than the Australian Aboriginies.
What’s crappy about this post.
It’s a little complicated, but their genetics puts their origins squarely within the category of what we call caucasoid, not negroid nor mongoloid.
Dig around a bit. Google “australian aborigine AND caucasian” and read. Or not. Your choice.
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