Archaic Genes in Modern People?

Science Magazine | 2005-04-22 | Elizabeth Culotta

[martin_fierro]

National Geographic "Genographic" Project

[blam]

GGG Ping.

"...that appears to have ancient roots in Asia rather than Africa."

I'm not suprised at all.
Keep your eye on SE Asia, a lot probably happened there while the rest of the world was in an Ice Age. Sundaland would have been a nice warm place to live for thousands of years.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam, for the ping. Will ping the list when I get back home. Thanks Lessismore, for excerpting both topics from Science.

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[SunkenCiv]

Modern Humans Made Their Point
Science Magazine | 2005-04-22 | Ann Gibbons
Posted on 04/23/2005 8:34:30 PM PDT by Lessismore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1389976/posts

[taxesareforever]

suggest that the ancestors of all living people arose in Africa

I suppose the next item on the agenda will then attempt to explain the origin of each race.

[CobaltBlue]

The kits I ordered from National Geographic were delivered promptly. The price, a little more than $100 including postage and handling, seems very reasonable compared to the competition.

CB says check it out.

[BP2]

The real cause of the mutations.

[PistolPaknMama]

bump for later

[glorgau]

I really can't understand how the anthropologist s way that humans wouldn't have interbred with other species - it's still attempted to this day!
There are numerous web sites where these predilictions can be verified. ;`)

[pawdoggie]

Doubtless this would explain my gigantopithicine waistline.

[MissAmericanPie]

Read the bible, of course there were at least two types of live styles, one to hunt and gather the other, Adam, was to farm. Then in Genesis six there was inbreeding between human women and the "sons of god" creating a hybrind that had to be wiped out in the flood. At least that is the way a simple reading relates it.

[blackbart.223]

"Doubtless this would explain my gigantopithicine waistline."

On the other hand it could be cheese burgers.

[The Duke]

Dr. Darwin...

...say it ain't so!!!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Jessy Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan , and all the race baiters are all sadden now.
Yes, they will be sadden now that there maybe evidence that humans came from SE ASIA and not from Africa and will target their racism more towards Asians now instead of Caucasians.

[shuckmaster]

the genetic variations were most frequent in Africa, just as expected if our ancestors were a subset of ancient Africans who migrated out of that continent.

It would seem to me that the region with the most genetic variations is the go to region not the migrated out of region.

[SunkenCiv]

Geneticists Makoto Shimada and Jody Hey of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, presented an intriguing haplotype--a set of genetic mutations inherited together--that appears to have ancient roots in Asia rather than Africa... one rare variant, appropriately named haplotype X, appeared in nine individuals from Europe to Oceania but was entirely absent in Africa. Shimada estimated that the haplotype arose 1 million years ago, long before the modern human exodus from Africa. -- One wonders what the Replacement advocates make of tha MN blood type group, the Neandertal physical features which persist in the children of Europe, the Asian eyefold, the 'fro, the list goes on and on...

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[Little Bill]

Make that two of us, out of Africa is bogus.

[wardaddy]

Most scientists will not touch race except to disavow it.

They can't get funding for race studies unless they diminish the cracker one.

[mikegi]

It would seem to me that the region with the most genetic variations is the go to region not the migrated out of region.

Not a geneticist but I did stay at Holiday Inn last night. Anyway, I *believe* that the most varied region is the oldest because it's had the most time to accumulate variations. Europe and other newer areas have less variation because they were settled later and by a (relatively) few people.

All the research into the past is fascinating but I'd really like to see where scientists think that human evolution is occuring most today. Is it in areas with large numbers of births and deaths? It seems like advanced countries have lower birth rates, which goes counter to evolution.