Posted on 12/10/2002 1:09:21 PM PST by blam
An Ancient Link to Africa Lives on in Bay of Bengal
By NICHOLAS WADE
Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago east of India, are direct descendants of the first modern humans to have inhabited Asia, geneticists conclude in a new study.
But the islanders lack a distinctive genetic feature found among Australian aborigines, another early group to leave Africa, suggesting they were part of a separate exodus.
The Andaman Islanders are "arguably the most enigmatic people on our planet," a team of geneticists led by Dr. Erika Hagelberg of the University of Oslo write in the journal Current Biology.
Their physical features short stature, dark skin, peppercorn hair and large buttocks are characteristic of African Pygmies. "They look like they belong in Africa, but here they are sitting in this island chain in the middle of the Indian Ocean," said Dr. Peter Underhill of Stanford University, a co-author of the new report.
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Studies Prove People Of Madagascar Came From Borneo And Africa
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Posted on 07/10/2005 8:31:26 AM PDT by blam
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Big Butts store fat, a good thing in times of want. If you read Herodotus, the Pygmy lived as far north as lake Chad in historic times.
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