Saturday 14 February 2009

African genetics

Pygmies have a single origin, so a study suggests.

The study suggests pygmies originated 90,000 or 54,000 years ago.

Until about 800BC, the pygmies were one interbreeding population, when the expansion of non-pygmy population caused genetic divergance.

Pygmies have a genetic mutation that causes them to be small in statue.

khoisan and pygmy populations appear to have same ancestry.

71% of american african ancestry appears to be Niger-Kordofanian.

Khoisan mtdna and y chromosome analysis indicates divergance about 35,000 years ago.

It is suggested that modern human migrated from a point near Angolan/namibian border.

Out of africa waypoint supposely at red sea midpoint

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