[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	OTOH: Despite Their Diversity, Pygmies Of Western Central Africa Share Recent Common Ancestors Cell Press ScienceDaily February 6, 2009 ...they diverged from a single ancestral population just about 2,800 years ago... Paul Verdu of Musee de l'Homme in Paris[:] ..."despite the fact that there is no such thing nowadays as a pygmy civilization or identity and despite their great cultural heterogeneity -- Western pygmy populations in fact do share a common origin and recently diverged from one another." Nevertheless, pygmy populations today do not know about one another, and they have no myth or story about their own origin, Verdu emphasized. In fact, pygmies do not call themselves "Pygmies." Rather, they identify themselves as distinct ethnic groups, including Kola, Baka, Efe, or Nsua, to name a few. There is also no pygmy language. All pygmy populations speak the language of their non-pygmy neighbors, representing two different language families in Western Central Africa. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[exist]

Then how do you explain...

[allmendream]

The same patterns we see DEVELOPING in divergent populations kept in reproductive isolation is the EXACT same pattern we see already present in species that shared a recent common ancestor.

[Tarpon]

Well sure they were all huddled down there. Europe was a giant glacier.

[Varda]

I was taught that there is more human genetic diversity in Africa than in all the rest of the world combined. It used to be said that Pygmies were so different from other people they could be called their own race.

[Liberty1970]

Studies of mtDNA confirm there is a high level of internal divergence among African populations, consistent with this study. On the other hand, I wish they would use more empirical methods to drive their dating models. We know from the low levels of variation in worldwide mitochondrial DNA that all humans shared a common ancestor only a few thousand years ago (if longer, the number of variants and their spread through the population would be much greater).

These inflated ages are not the result of empirical studies of mutation rates (which demand much younger ages) but rather are based on evolutionary models and assumptions. Then they turn around and call the results evidence of evolution! It's like dealing with flat earthers who only want to talk about their landscaped lawn and keep ignoring the testimony of astronauts living around them.

The “Eve” Mitochondrial Consensus Sequence

[bert]

So which group migrated to Zambales Provence in the Philippines?

[SunkenCiv]

Polygamy left its mark on the human genome
New Scientist | September 26, 2008 | Ewen Callaway
Posted on 10/03/2008 11:45:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2096841/posts

Maori Men And Women From Different Homelands
ABC Science News | 3-27-2003 | Adele Whyte
Posted on 09/06/2004 5:15:41 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1208808/posts

Human populations are tightly interwoven
Nature | September 29, 2004 | Michael Hopkin
Posted on 09/30/2004 2:17:34 PM EDT by AZLiberty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1231661/posts

[ZULU]

Physical pygmies as contrasted with mental and moral pygmies which evolve in less than a generation upon election to the U.S. Congress.

[Larry Lucido]

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