From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52607
Date: 2008-02-11
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> Saami and Berbers--an unexpected mitochondrial DNA
> link.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> The connection of Saami, Berbers and European
> Hunters-gatherers
> is ruhlenesque.
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> Arnaud
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