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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Truthcentric: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Swenet: [qb]Save for a few genetic vestiges, modern day Semetic speakers in the Middle East are not genetically what proto-Semetic speakers would have been--get that through your head for once. Djehuti already tried explaining this to you. You Afronuts really have trouble with this simple piece of information, don't you? Dana also seems excessively slow when it comes to understanding this. When Semetic speakers returned to Africa 3000 years ago, what African lineages did they leave behind in the Ethiopian genepool? If they were never genetically Afrasan to begin with, what sense would it make to use their genetic distance relative to Africans, as evidence against their descent from a proto-Afrasan community?[/qb][/QUOTE]Amun-Ra's confusion probably has its roots here. He assumes that linguistic relations must always reflect biological affinities, as if people couldn't adopt a language without changing their biological genomes. He cannot fathom the possibility that contemporary Semitic people could share a linguistic heritage with AEs and certain sub-Saharan Africans despite having closer biological ties to Europeans. That said, if modern Semitic people descend from a genomic and cultural substratum separate from the proto-Semitic speakers, you would think modern Semitic languages would reflect this. I mean, we would find lots of non-Afrasan words and linguistic features peppered through modern Semitic that reflect their descent from non-Afrasan peoples. [/qb][/QUOTE]Truth is right. It's what Keita has been saying for a long time. One must make a distinction between ethnogenesis and biogenesis. Ethnogenesis is the origins of a cultural group with include language, customs, and material culture-- any or all of which is easily transmitted from one biological population to another. Biogenesis is the origin of a biological population itself which may carry mixed lineages already. The problem is that Amun-Ra tries to identify the DNA Tribes findings with Obenga's Negro-Egyptien when the genetic data has nothing to do with linguistic groupings let alone that of Obenga's which is rejected by the linguistic academia by and large as it is! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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