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I always thought it was because God took us out of the oven too soon. The next batch he burnt black. The third batch came out a beautiful tan and was just right. At least this is how my Indian anthropology professor explained it.
17 posted on 09/02/2009 12:55:44 PM PDT by dog breath
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To: dog breath

What happened with Asian people if that’s the case?


33 posted on 09/02/2009 1:04:18 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (My tagline is an honor student at Free Republic Elementary School.)
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To: dog breath

Indian anthropology?

Deep common ancestry of Indian and western-Eurasian mitochondrial DNA lineages.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10574762

Kivisild T, Bamshad MJ, Kaldma K, Metspalu M, Metspalu E, Reidla M, Laos S, Parik J, Watkins WS, Dixon ME, Papiha SS, Mastana SS, Mir MR, Ferak V, Villems R.

Department of Evolutionary Biology, Tartu University, Tartu, 51010, Estonia.

About a fifth of the human gene pool belongs largely either to Indo-European or Dravidic speaking people inhabiting the Indian peninsula. The ‘Caucasoid share’ in their gene pool is thought to be related predominantly to the Indo-European speakers. A commonly held hypothesis, albeit not the only one, suggests a massive Indo-Aryan invasion to India some 4,000 years ago [1]. Recent limited analysis of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of Indian populations has been interpreted as supporting this concept [2] [3]. Here, this interpretation is questioned. We found an extensive deep late Pleistocene genetic link between contemporary Europeans and Indians, provided by the mtDNA haplogroup U, which encompasses roughly a fifth of mtDNA lineages of both populations. Our estimate for this split is close to the suggested time for the peopling of Asia and the first expansion of anatomically modern humans in Eurasia [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] and likely pre-dates their spread to Europe. Only a small fraction of the ‘Caucasoid-specific’ mtDNA lineages found in Indian populations can be ascribed to a relatively recent admixture.

PMID: 10574762 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


37 posted on 09/02/2009 1:08:14 PM PDT by OldSpice
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To: dog breath

All this time I thought white people are the creation of Yakkub, the devil.


62 posted on 09/02/2009 1:27:45 PM PDT by IDFbunny
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