Children's DNA sheds new light on African lineages1/23/2020Researchers were able to collect DNA from the bones of four children buried in a rock shelter in Cameroon between 3,000 and 8,000 years ago. Their findings, published in Nature, revealed the DNA was linked to hunter-gatherer groups, such as the Baka or Aka, rather than the Bantu people who live in the region today.
The genomes also show signs of admixture, implying that the ancestors of these children interbred with individuals from different populations. In addition, three prominent radiations can be discerned, including one around 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, which gave rise to at least four major branches that contribute to present-day populations.
Among modern humans, the deepest-splitting branch is inferred to be the one that leads to Central African hunter-gatherers
The team’s bold new model pushes back Central African hunter-gatherer origins to 200,000 to 250,000 years ago—not long after our species evolved. The model suggests their lineage split from three other modern human lineages: one leading to the Khoisan hunter-gatherers in southern Africa, one to east Africans, and one to a now-extinct “ghost” population.
Dr. Victor Grauer in studying the music of the Baka (Pygmy) culture and the San Bushmen was amazed at the similarity. We can also note that neither culture knew of homosexuality nor did the males practice masturbation - and also all the males trained in spiritual healing.
In other words this is our true original human culture - be it Bakka (pygmy) or San (bushmen).
It makes sense that these two cultures would overlap and be related on an even more older ancient basis.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-kids-dna-reveals-new-insights-how-africa-was-populated
A previous genetic study, led by evolutionary geneticist Pontus Skoglund of the Francis Crick Institute in London, identified a human population originating more than 200,000 years ago that was ancestral to later rainforest hunter-gatherer groups in western and central sub-Saharan Africa. The new study provides further evidence for that ancestral line: Ancient children in the new study carried a minority of ancestry from those ancient forerunners of rainforest groups.
Wow - very cool.
Now, a new study of the 1967 fossil site indicates the earliest known members of our species, Homo sapiens, roamed Africa about 195,000 years ago.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223122209.htm
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476889/7/TOWNSEND%20C%20Thesis%202015%20.pdf
Cathryn Townsend debunking the myths about the Ik people - article
https://www.cathryntownsend.org/#media-coverage
Townsend, C. (2017). How Compassion Made Us Human: The evolutionary origins of tenderness, trust & morality, by Penny Spikins, 2015. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Archaeology; ISBN 978-1-7815-9310-3, hardback 19.99; 278pp. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1-3. doi.org/10.1017/S0959774317000105
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Study busts 50-year-old myth by anthropologist that spread among media and public
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WACO, Texas (July 24, 2020) — A mountain people in Uganda — branded as selfish and loveless by an anthropologist half a century ago — really is not, according to a study led by a Baylor University anthropologist.
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/12/jerome-and-ingrid-lewis-womans-biggest.html
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