tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post7456786242503053066..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Recent origin of North African populationsDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-79092992779845525712013-12-27T21:48:11.210+02:002013-12-27T21:48:11.210+02:00I would agree with the "uniquely old North Af...I would agree with the "uniquely old North African" comment. Isolated peoples that still exist in North West Africa and the remainder of the Aboriginals in the Canaries still have traces of the cro magnon features that once predominated that area. Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17656563742645201926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-18048981009521420862013-12-27T02:30:24.250+02:002013-12-27T02:30:24.250+02:00Some little gems from this paper:
Figure 3 appear...Some little gems from this paper:<br /><br />Figure 3 appears to show that modern North Africans do not descend directly from a Middle Eastern population. Rather the Levant and North Africa are brother groups from an older population roughly represented by Basques and Italians. I imagine this group was the original early Mediterraneans.<br /><br />"Although recent cultural expansions from the Middle East, like the Islamic expansion, could have introduced new lineages to North Africa and facilitated admixture between populations from both regions, our results show that the North African component mostly formed much earlier. "<br /><br />and<br /><br />"Although most North Africans appear as an admixture of populations from the surrounding regions, the Tunisian Berbers show long periods of genetic isolation, allowing a distinctive genetic component to evolve. Unlike other North Africans, our admixture tests propose that Berbers diverged from surrounding populations without subsequent mixture. We show that coalescence time estimate from paternal lineages are pushed back ~15,000 years when Tunisians (Berbers and general population) are included in the analyses suggesting an early upper Paleolithic ancestral population with most North Africans (~30,000–44,000 ya)."<br /><br />So it looks like modern North Africans are mostly (southern) European with a recent Islamic and sub-saharan African contributions. Plus there is a very, very old uniquely North African component. IMO.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11000684388615334278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-71969578662063624772013-12-25T01:59:27.847+02:002013-12-25T01:59:27.847+02:00That would go well with what I have discovered fro...That would go well with what I have discovered from my own genome. I have nearly 1% of Denisovan, and my family has the South Asian Indian phenotype. So The Berbers (including the survivors of the inhabitants of the Canaries) seem to be (at least on the male side for sure) the product of a back migration to Africa from Eurasia some time at the end of the Pleistocene. Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17656563742645201926noreply@blogger.com