Re: East Asia genetic links

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

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> http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/2/13#B22
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> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
> cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11140950&dopt=Abstract
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> [unwrap]
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> An update on the current view of mtDNA lineages and their relevance
> to the problem of human expansions, and some additional info on the
> origin of the South Asian 9-bp deletion. It is clear that

Oppenheimer

> interprets the genetic evidence so as to make it fit his

preconceived

> notions, with no regard to things like realistic time depths.
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> Anyway, genes, languages and cultures do not necessarily migrate
> together.
>
> Piotr

I thought the results of Cavalli-Sforza etc showed that for the most
part, genes and languages do (and please don't use that African-
American example; its scope is unprecedented)?

Torsten