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First Ancient African DNA Sequenced
Archaeology Magazine ^ | Thursday, October 08, 2015 | unattributed

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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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: africa; gigo; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble
First Ancient African DNA Sequenced

1 posted on 10/08/2015 2:10:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
High altitude genes? I had a pair of those when I used to fit better into that kind of pants.

2 posted on 10/08/2015 2:10:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


3 posted on 10/08/2015 2:21:20 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: SunkenCiv

More crap!


4 posted on 10/08/2015 2:23:17 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: SunkenCiv
This just in... they recreated the First Ancient African from his DNA sequencing. And his first words were "I feel good!!!! I knew that I would!!!!"


5 posted on 10/08/2015 2:26:56 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: normbal

Back in the day I learned that Pakis were Caucasians....YMMV.


6 posted on 10/08/2015 2:51:04 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Paladin2

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.


7 posted on 10/08/2015 4:11:41 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: normbal

Again, the point being that skin color does not = “race”.


8 posted on 10/08/2015 4:14:24 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Paladin2

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Hindi are too.


9 posted on 10/08/2015 4:17:31 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: normbal
"Curiously, early DNA studies showed that Australian aboriginals were caucasian too."

Not a chance!

Only the African Bushmen have DNA older than the Australian Aboriginies.

10 posted on 10/08/2015 7:11:59 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Busko

What’s crappy about this post.


11 posted on 10/08/2015 11:27:33 PM PDT by spyone (ridiculum)
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To: blam

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.


12 posted on 10/09/2015 7:06:07 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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