Posted on 11/02/2011 7:32:23 PM PDT by decimon
A six-year effort to map the genetic patterns of humankind appears to confirm that early people first left Africa by crossing into Arabia.
Ancestors of modern people in Europe, Asia and Oceania migrated along a southern route, not a nothern route through Egypt as some had supposed.
The results from the Genographic Project are published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
It suggests an important role for South Asia in the peopling of the world.
The ancestors of present-day non-African people left their ancestral homeland some 70,000 years ago.
The researchers found that Indian populations had more genetic diversity - which gives an indication of the age of a population - than either Europeans or East Asians.
This supports the idea that pioneering settlers followed a southern coastal route as they populated east Asia and continued into Oceania.
A route out of Africa via the Arabian Peninsula, along the southern coast of Asia, explained the observed patterns in genetic diversity much better than a route through Egypt's Sinai desert.
This supports other evidence showing that sea levels might have been low enough around 60-70,000 years ago for humans to cross from the horn of Africa into Arabia via the Bab-el-Mandeb straits in the Red Sea.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
racists.
Ebb tide ping.
They couldn’t leave soon enough...a continent loaded with animals using them as food, unable to support large human populations, just like now.
So, how did they part the southern Red Sea before Moses, to get into the Arabian peninsula????
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This means you can safely put African-American on all university and job applications.
In the never ending drive to give some kind of “they are the most important peoples on earth” confirmation to Africa the left will always trumphet things like this but carefully phrase their words so they don’t have to eat it when it is shown to be totally false.
Actually it’s the Reed Sea, according to my parents’ old Bible. My Bible uses “Red Sea” as a section descriptor, but nowhere in the text does it give a proper name. It DOES mention Baal Zephon as their approximate location which is nowhere near the “Red” Sea but much closer to land links to the Sinai.
Even early man knew what a septic tank it was.
My DNA was included in this study.
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The Neandertal EnigmaFrayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
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Nothing about the remote past is “confirmed.” More evidence is gathered. With sufficient interpretation it tends to support a given theory and more new evidence supports that theory even more, in part at least, because the prime assumption is the framework in which new evidence is interpreted. It is not “what can we learn from this?” It is “How does this show that the assumption might be true?” That continues until a series of discoveries cannot be made to fit and a new generation of Archies and Anthros come up with a new system that becomes the revolutionary new assumption for another generation.
Does this mean we can all demand reparations?
Aren’t these scientists the same ones that have proven global warming beyond any doubt? I keep returning to the frenzy with which “Native Americans” demand the “return” of any early human finds in the Americas so they can be hastily reburied before they can be examined and perhaps add to the growing evicence that the first people in the Americas came from Europe.
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