tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post3956388437938425917..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: ADMIXTURE on the shores of the Indian OceanDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-41643950627649677072010-12-11T07:30:17.447+02:002010-12-11T07:30:17.447+02:00Very nice plot.
Dr. H.H.O.C.Very nice plot.<br /><br />Dr. H.H.O.C.horaciohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08177107320272273468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-54843477061932535352010-12-02T21:31:28.424+02:002010-12-02T21:31:28.424+02:00"It's interesting to see how spread out t..."It's interesting to see how spread out the Malay population is. Some of them must have quite recent Indian admixture, and some recent Chinese admixture. Especially considering urban Malays are must more likely to have admixture like that than ones from the countryside in peninsular Malaysia. Which are more likely to be almost like Cambodians albeit slightly more towards Melanesians and Indians on the plot.<br />Would be interesting to see a population portrait."<br /><br />In addition to these factors it is worth recalling that even no, Malaysia is a plural constitutal monarchy, a bit like the UAE. Different populations within Malaysia have enough of an ethnic and national identity to still have their own separate kings without any one of them being pre-eminent.Andrew Oh-Willekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-34777146129814224562010-11-30T10:14:56.102+02:002010-11-30T10:14:56.102+02:00"At the bottom are the Papuans, relatively un..."At the bottom are the Papuans, relatively unadmixed Australoids". <br /><br />I wonder where the Australian Aborigines would fit? <br /><br />"Close to them, but deviating towards East Eurasians are the NAN Melanesians; these are the Nasioi, Papuan speakers from Bougainville, which they inhabit together with Austronesian speakers". <br /><br />The admixture with the Austronesian-speaking people is presumably what drags them towards East Eurasians. <br /><br />"And, finally, the Australoid component is clearly distant from all of the above". <br /><br />But there is a widespread Australoid substrate, perhaps an artifact in some cases.terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-52149928197552109152010-11-27T12:25:30.333+02:002010-11-27T12:25:30.333+02:00You should have included Bantu Africans from East ...You should have included Bantu Africans from East Africa, such as the Luhya. This plot makes it seem like the ancestry of the Maasai is completely East African, which it is not. It is a mix between East African Nilotic/Cushitic and Bantu.Lankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09164328821211694856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-7579167531698391112010-11-27T07:17:28.745+02:002010-11-27T07:17:28.745+02:00The Maasai are not relatively unadmixed. They are ...The Maasai are not relatively unadmixed. They are actually known for having substantial Cushitic admixture, which is why they are often referred to as "Nilo-Hamitic" rather than simply as "Nilotic" like their relatives in Southern Sudan such as the Dinka. Tishkoff et al. (2009), among others, point this out in that large study of theirs.<br /><br />This is basically why the Maasai are closer to the Ethiopians in that plot than one would expect, and why in genome-wide studies Yemenis and certain other Middle Eastern populations show greater similarity to the Maasai than they do to the latter's comparatively unmixed Nilotic relatives in southern Sudan as well as other Sub-Saharan Negroid populations. It's not because the Yemenis et al. have a particularly large Negroid component that's specifically related to the Maasai. It's the other way around: the Maasai trace almost half of their ancestry to Cushitic forbears who already had strong West Eurasian affinities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-72324926756204505692010-11-27T06:31:34.860+02:002010-11-27T06:31:34.860+02:00Interesting analysis dienekes. It's also stran...Interesting analysis dienekes. It's also strange how some Southern Indians resemble East Africans yet there is no genetic similarity.<br /><br />This Tamil man could have easily been Ethiopian or Somali:<br /><br />http://d.imagehost.org/0261/tam22.jpgUmihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08677388491896846251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-78280810379829408052010-11-27T03:53:58.170+02:002010-11-27T03:53:58.170+02:00It's interesting to see how spread out the Mal...It's interesting to see how spread out the Malay population is. Some of them must have quite recent Indian admixture, and some recent Chinese admixture. Especially considering urban Malays are must more likely to have admixture like that than ones from the countryside in peninsular Malaysia. Which are more likely to be almost like Cambodians albeit slightly more towards Melanesians and Indians on the plot.<br />Would be interesting to see a population portrait.Gui Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10460980441040040539noreply@blogger.com