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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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"one rare variant, appropriately named haplotype X, appeared in nine individuals from Europe to Oceania but was entirely absent in Africa."

Prefessor Stephen Oppenheimer has documented the 'X' gene in American Indians and some Europeans and no-one in between. His explanation is that the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago killed everyone in between and broke the link. Oppenheimer opines that humans were probably in Australia prior to the Toba eruption.