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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Boofer: [qb] I'm gonna be frank with everybody. It's not really that I don't understand what's being said. What makes it difficult is my own racial conceptions. It's stubborness, I admit. I have an idea of a "mixed" person (of 1 Afro and 1 Euro parentage) in my head. The image is not unlike some ethiopians I've seen. I have an idea also of arabs and of white people. The image is not unlike many north africans I have seen. Another problem, when distinguishing phenotypes and ancestries is North Africa. Northern Africa seems to have a great influence from East Africa as well as Eurasia, based on mtdna. [IMG]http://es.geocities.com/luis_aldamiz/Genetics/images/MtDNA-MAP-World.jpg[/IMG] Now based on that, it is hard for me to believe any talk that North Africans are entirely "indigenous", and it also makes it apparent why there is often a distinction between Subsaharan and North African. I also know that Y dna shows a much, much smaller Eurasian influence, but that just shows that there is influence from both. [/qb][/QUOTE]Boofer, what is being said has nothing to do with skin color. The point being made is about ALL human features combined: skull shape, size, thickness, skeletal features and so on. And it is not about Northern Africa it is about ALL of Africa and specifically places South of the Sahara like CENTRAL and EAST Africa. The GREATEST amount of diversity is found among the populations in this region and it is NOT simply those in East Africa, it is a reference to a BROAD RANGE of people from across Central Africa. The problem here is that African features have been STEREOTYPED for so long as simply being of ONE TYPE and not DIVERSE both within and across various African ethnic groups. Therefore, this oversimplification causes some people to see certain features as being African and others NON African, without actually KNOWING the diversity of features found around the continent. Congo by itself has hundreds of features among its population and similar things can be said about every other part of Africa. But because some people are operating under stereotypical views of Africa, detailed analysis and documentation of such wide ranging features have not been documented for Africans. Therefore, the stereotypical view of Africans as a single monolithic type are allowed to continue in the publich consciousness. These are all African features: [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/109275762_87b4901ba2_o.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/109275777_c3d7959946.jpg?v=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/109276009_0115d3d747.jpg?v=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/109275806_604225fb25.jpg?v=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/109275792_d67f7bab72.jpg?v=0[/IMG] [IMG]http://farm1.static.flickr.com/37/109275698_6a1fff13c0.jpg?v=0[/IMG] From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariotto52/sets/72157594228139792/ [/QB][/QUOTE]
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