[martin_fierro]

National Geographic "Genographic" Project

[blam]

GGG Ping.

"...that appears to have ancient roots in Asia rather than Africa."

I'm not suprised at all.
Keep your eye on SE Asia, a lot probably happened there while the rest of the world was in an Ice Age. Sundaland would have been a nice warm place to live for thousands of years.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam, for the ping. Will ping the list when I get back home. Thanks Lessismore, for excerpting both topics from Science.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[SunkenCiv]

Modern Humans Made Their Point
Science Magazine | 2005-04-22 | Ann Gibbons
Posted on 04/23/2005 8:34:30 PM PDT by Lessismore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1389976/posts

[taxesareforever]

suggest that the ancestors of all living people arose in Africa

I suppose the next item on the agenda will then attempt to explain the origin of each race.

[BP2]

The real cause of the mutations.

[PistolPaknMama]

bump for later

[pawdoggie]

Doubtless this would explain my gigantopithicine waistline.

[MissAmericanPie]

Read the bible, of course there were at least two types of live styles, one to hunt and gather the other, Adam, was to farm. Then in Genesis six there was inbreeding between human women and the "sons of god" creating a hybrind that had to be wiped out in the flood. At least that is the way a simple reading relates it.

[The Duke]

Dr. Darwin...

...say it ain't so!!!

[shuckmaster]

the genetic variations were most frequent in Africa, just as expected if our ancestors were a subset of ancient Africans who migrated out of that continent.

It would seem to me that the region with the most genetic variations is the go to region not the migrated out of region.

[SunkenCiv]

Geneticists Makoto Shimada and Jody Hey of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, presented an intriguing haplotype--a set of genetic mutations inherited together--that appears to have ancient roots in Asia rather than Africa... one rare variant, appropriately named haplotype X, appeared in nine individuals from Europe to Oceania but was entirely absent in Africa. Shimada estimated that the haplotype arose 1 million years ago, long before the modern human exodus from Africa. -- One wonders what the Replacement advocates make of tha MN blood type group, the Neandertal physical features which persist in the children of Europe, the Asian eyefold, the 'fro, the list goes on and on...

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[Junior]

Ping.

[Thumper1960]

Bump!

[Ciexyz]

btt

[Dustbunny]

Wow, great article.

But at a genetics symposium, two independent groups presented data from the X chromosome hinting that modern humans interbred with other human species

I have always wondered if children born with Down's Syndrome are actually a throw back.

[Varda]

If this is the same "haplotype X" than it has been found in Africa. I'm assuming haplotype X is referring to a mtDNA sequence.

"A maximum parsimony tree of 21 complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences belonging to haplogroup X and the survey of the haplogroup-associated polymorphisms in 13,589 mtDNAs from Eurasia and Africa revealed that haplogroup X is subdivided into two major branches, here defined as "X1" and "X2." The first is restricted to the populations of North and East Africa and the Near East, whereas X2 encompasses all X mtDNAs from Europe, western and Central Asia,Siberia, and the great majority of the Near East, as well as some North African samples. Subhaplogroup X1 diversity indicates an early coalescence time, whereas X2 has apparently undergone a more recent population expansion in Eurasia, most likely around or after the last glacial maximum."
http://www.usenet.com/newsgroups/sci.anthropology.paleo/msg05159.html

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Now we're going to start having some fun.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

hinting that modern humans interbred with other human species

But, but, but I thought that one of the (nearly) sacred definitions of a sexual species was that it could not breed true outside of itself.