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Ancient African exodus mostly involved men, geneticists find
Science Codex ^ | December 21, 2008

Posted on 12/22/2008 5:14:35 PM PST by CE2949BB

BOSTON, Mass. (Dec. 21, 2008) — Modern humans left Africa over 60,000 years ago in a migration that many believe was responsible for nearly all of the human population that exist outside Africa today.

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TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: africa; africanexodus; exodus; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; history; multiregionalism
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1 posted on 12/22/2008 5:14:36 PM PST by CE2949BB
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To: CE2949BB

Alright, so the Obamas did SOME good


2 posted on 12/22/2008 5:15:57 PM PST by mrclean5
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To: CE2949BB
Ancient African exodus mostly involved men, geneticists find

See? They were trying to get away from their women even back then!

3 posted on 12/22/2008 5:17:11 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: CE2949BB
Ancient African exodus mostly involved men, geneticists find

Well, that explains a lot!

This article must be the precursor in explaining how the gay lifestyle helped to propagate and spread the species.

Makes total sense!

< /sarc >

4 posted on 12/22/2008 5:18:06 PM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: CE2949BB

Another reason why boys and girls are different.


5 posted on 12/22/2008 5:18:18 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Old Sarge

Or maybe it was single dudes looking for chicks.

Yet another possiblilty, they were putting the homo in Homo erectus.


6 posted on 12/22/2008 5:21:28 PM PST by Hugin (GSA! (Goodbye sweet America))
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To: CE2949BB

Dear, I have a job offer up north … wait here, I’ll be back soon. ;-)


7 posted on 12/22/2008 5:23:01 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Old Sarge
Ancient African exodus mostly involved men, geneticists find...

See? They were trying to get away from their women even back then!

Sarge, it was really a matter of back child support due that drove them all out. So we can thank the courts for propogating the human species beyond Africa.

8 posted on 12/22/2008 5:24:23 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Might also explain why women in general were later coodled and not allowed to die (eg. in war).


9 posted on 12/22/2008 5:32:29 PM PST by apollo861 (I am so gonna swallow your soul.)
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To: CE2949BB
humans left Africa over 60,000 years ago...responsible for nearly all of the human population that exist outside Africa today.

Then why do I need a ton of this when I go out in the sun?


10 posted on 12/22/2008 5:32:38 PM PST by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: CE2949BB

A mostly female “exodus” would be a more sustainable population. Who knows, maybe they tried and got distracted while asking for directions.


11 posted on 12/22/2008 5:32:40 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: 17th Miss Regt; Hugin

LOL to both of ya!


12 posted on 12/22/2008 5:33:30 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: RegulatorCountry

“Excuse me, which way to the shoe store?”


13 posted on 12/22/2008 5:34:26 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: Michael.SF.

Wasn’t it Farrakan who said the white race was the result of an African lab experiment gone wrong , or some such insanity ? LOL .


14 posted on 12/22/2008 5:36:36 PM PST by sushiman
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To: Publius6961

A more reasonable scenario is that the hunters explored outward, came back, a few dragged mates and daughters into the new territory, and the men coming to the new lands competed for the wives and daughters that had been there for years over trying to bring new women to the new land.

Like the one trapper who brings a wife, then has all the new AND old trappers fighting over his daughters - instead of trying to go to the old land, convince women to come, and drag new women in.


15 posted on 12/22/2008 5:40:20 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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"Northeast? NORTHEAST??? Don't give me stupid northeast, I want to know where to turn. Give me landmarks, you idiot!"
16 posted on 12/22/2008 5:41:51 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: CE2949BB

Migrations are often caused by bad conditions. If a group of people are migrating because of famine, a disproportionate number of the women are likely to die along the way.


17 posted on 12/22/2008 5:49:23 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (We used to institutionalize the insane. Now we elect them.)
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Bad conditions would imply that those left behind were even more negatively selected. In fact, the far higher genetic diversity within Africa suggests that the emigrants were the marginal non-dominants being outcompeted for resources and access to mates.

Any polygamous species always has a “halo” of beta- and gamma-males who can’t challenge the alphas who exist on the margins of the main herd’s habitat.

It stands to reason that at some point a number of these betas, with what few women they had, opted out of competition with the alphas and decided just to strike out into entirely unknown territory.


18 posted on 12/22/2008 7:38:16 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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To: Philo-Junius

So, when you get down to it, everyone complaining about exploitation and colonialism is complaining about payback.

If you look far enough back, everyone was a master, and everyone a slave.


19 posted on 12/22/2008 7:40:05 PM PST by Philo-Junius (One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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