To: M. Dodge Thomas
I saw an extremely interesting documentary last week, probably on National Geographic, about a man who has been tracing mankind back to Africa. It seems he feels we are all African and these Africans traveled to different parts of the world to become different ethnic groups. He used DNA. It was very convincing but I don't buy all of it. It was fun to watch,though.
62 posted on
06/15/2005 12:26:48 PM PDT by
Marysecretary
(Thank you, Lord, for FOUR MORE YEARS!!!)
To: Marysecretary
That probably was Stepehen Oppenheimer. See post #51.
87 posted on
06/15/2005 2:03:40 PM PDT by
blam
To: Marysecretary
"It seems he feels we are all African and these Africans traveled to different parts of the world to become different ethnic groups."
I havent read about this stuff for a while, but ten years or so back the then current theory based on evidence from mitochondrial DNA was that homo sapiens at one time passed though a genetic choke point where out ancestral population had been reduced to a very small group, almost certainly located in Africa.
If so at least in that sense, we are all African-Americans.
93 posted on
06/15/2005 2:35:39 PM PDT by
M. Dodge Thomas
(More of the same, only with more zeros on the end.)
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