Re: Saami and Berbers--an unexpected mitochondrial DNA link

Saami and Berbers--an unexpected mitochondrial DNA link.

Achilli A, Rengo C, Battaglia V, Pala M, Olivieri A, Fornarino S, Magri C,
Scozzari R, Babudri N, Santachiara-Benerecetti AS, Bandelt HJ, Semino O,
Torroni A.
Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
The sequencing of entire human mitochondrial DNAs belonging to haplogroup U
reveals that this clade arose shortly after the "out of Africa" exit and
rapidly radiated into numerous regionally distinct subclades. Intriguingly,
the Saami of Scandinavia and the Berbers of North Africa were found to share
an extremely young branch, aged merely approximately 9,000 years. This
unexpected finding not only confirms that the Franco-Cantabrian refuge area
of southwestern Europe was the source of late-glacial expansions of
hunter-gatherers that repopulated northern Europe after the Last Glacial
Maximum but also reveals a direct maternal link between those European
hunter-gatherer populations and the Berbers.
PMID: 15791543 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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That's really the kind of shameless abrupt conclusion
that geneticians like to assert at the cost of plausibility
and with disregard to all other scientific fields.

In the first place, the last glaciation ended around -13 000
so that many places in Europe became
acceptable biotopes for mankind.
Forests grew so that the arrow had to be invented
because old-fashioned weapons were not efficient in forest.
This is a major proof of mankind's expansion after -13 000
in all Europe.

The date of 9 000 has little to do with late-glacial expansions
it's 4 000 years too late.
It has more to do with the certain invention of sea-faring boats.
CF. Greece

The connection of Saami, Berbers and European Hunters-gatherers
is ruhlenesque.

Arnaud
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