[SunkenCiv]

More information: Nancy Bird et al, Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture, Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2616

Journal information: Science Advances

The Kanem-Bornu empire at its greatest extent. Credit: Tourbillon / Wikipedia Project

[Paladin2]

“It’s vital that scientists analyze more DNA from genomes of African people.”, they said without evidence....

[AndyJackson]

It covered more than 4,000 kilometers in less than 2,000 years.

Arriving in South Africa at about the same time the European colonialists did.

[Right Wing Vegan]

This migration started in a small area of western Cameroon roughly 4,000 years ago, before rapidly spreading south and east.

Linguistics might suggest otherwise, since the closest extant language to original or proto Bantu is Luganda, unless the Baganda originated in West Africa.

[sit-rep]

primate DNA??

[FarCenter]

Agriculturalists with a superior technological culture replace more primitive agriculturalists and especially hunter gatherers.

It’s all about diffusion of high population density cultures.

It’s not different from the spread of agriculturalists out of Asia Minor into the Danube basin and then into western Europe.

Or the spread of Central Asian pastoralists into Europe bringing the Indo European languages.

[Red Badger]

There has been debate about whether the Bantu languages spread largely as a transmission of culture, or whether large-scale migration was involved. The latest research shows that the latter explanation is the likeliest.

Rap........................