[hellbender]

I just found an article which states that similarities between Andamanese and African "pygmoid" groups (which I suspect means Bushmen, but perhaps includes others) are convergent. I.e. they evolved independently in distantly related populations. Maybe hair texture is rather easily modified; after all, I didn't take people very long to breed all kinds of strange hair textures in dogs.

The article also found that " New data sets...confirm the absence of any Andaman M2 haplotypes among the ethnic populations of India."

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=378623

[muawiyah]

The article at that website says that it was published online 2002 December 11.

They also used MUSEUM SAMPLES (of questionable provinence I might add).

Article we are discussing is quite recent and is based on thousands of samples taken recently.

I think the old conclusions have been overturned.

BTW, the discovery that the San people are apparantly the source of the most ancient lineages for Europeans and Chinese (and everybody else outside of Africa) is NEW STUFF.

Nils Vander Post suggested as much 3/4 of a century ago.