[blam]

I thought we already knew this...just not exactly when.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa, Replacement theory 'demolished'

[stevem]

The land bridge was submerged about 8,000 years ago.

How did that happen?

[Leo Carpathian]

Is this series or hugh?
So we are all african - somethings?

[Coyoteman]

Cool!

Lots of neat findings coming from DNA.

And there will be more to come!

[headsonpikes]

Like Bob Marley sings, mon, we are “One Blood”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam. And yet, 55,000 years ago is still earlier than anthropologists will accept. This sounds (especially coming out of England as it does) like book-cookin' to prop up the Replacement model.

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[raftguide]

Somehow the out of Africa model doesn’t explain the obvious greater development of Asians over other races. Africans appear to be the most primitive of life forms and the Asians appear to be the most advanced IMHO. Yet humans emigrated from Africa? I think someday another cradle of civilization will be found in China.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

At the time of the migration, Australia and New Guinea were joined by a land bridge

Then it flooded thanks to the caveman contribution to globull warming. Cavemen then had to buy carbon credits to cook Mammoths and send smoke signals. The Al Gore cave had a very small carbon footprint and he used only one leaf to wipe.

[UglyinLA]

Damn, I thought his great-grandmother was Dutch. Oh well, whaddya know.

[WoofDog123]

“such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus, who had already colonised Australia”

how are these earlier humans believed to have reached australia?

[AdmSmith]

Here http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/7/47 is a related article “Y-chromosome evidence suggests a common paternal heritage of Austro-Asiatic populations.”

The Austro-Asiatic linguistic family, which is considered to be the oldest of all the families in India, has a substantial presence in Southeast Asia. However, the possibility of any genetic link among the linguistic sub-families of the Indian Austro-Asiatics on the one hand and between the Indian and the Southeast Asian Austro-Asiatics on the other has not been explored till now. Therefore, to trace the origin and historic expansion of Austro-Asiatic groups of India, we analysed Y-chromosome SNP and STR data of the 1222 individuals from 25 Indian populations, covering all the three branches of Austro-Asiatic tribes, viz. Mundari, Khasi-Khmuic and Mon-Khmer, along with the previously published data on 214 relevant populations from Asia and Oceania.



Map showing present-day distribution of Austro-Asiatic groups and the schematic representation of the routes of migration of the different Austro-Asiatic linguistic subgroups of India.

[Republican Party Reptile]

A report by a team led by Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Universities published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says Australia's Aboriginal population sprang from the same tiny group of settlers. This group replaced early kinds of humans -such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus, who had already colonised Australia - rather than interbreeding with them.

There were Neanderthals in Australia???

[dfwgator]

“No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way at all...if there’s anybody watching.”