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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: First off Europe is a subcontinent of Asia or Eurasia if you will while Africa is its own continent. Egypt lies in the latter. Politics is not the issue but rather population genetics.[/QUOTE]You're mistaken; Egypt is a trans-continental country. Even if it wasn't (and Sinai Peninsula was classified as Africa), we would still expect Levant ties to Lower Egypt based on geographical closeness; north Egypt and south Levant are not discontinuous landmasses, they're connected, i.e. the Sinai Peninsula is a land-bridge between the two continents - Eurasia and Africa. [QUOTE]Again, your problem is you rely too much on morphometric data of skulls. Morphometrics are actually poor indicators of genetic relation. Non-metric traits are better indicators of genetic relation but are of course are no substitute for actual molecular genetics.[/QUOTE]You repeat these claims, but they're unsubstantiated. Metrics vs. non-metrics has been debated since at least the 1960s; I would argue the former are more reliable, not latter. This is because non-metrics don't capture the complete morphology/surface-area of the skull, so they aren't an accurate measure of overall similarity; most non-metrics in studies are confined to limited cranial areas, particularly the jaw. [QUOTE]Brace's clusters method is outdated for this very reason since this same method also shows sub-Saharan Somalis to cluster closer to Englishmen than to West Africans does this mean Somalis are genetically closer to English than to other Africans??[/QUOTE]] Who is geographically closer? For example I predict Somalis are closer genetically to Italians, than Zulu or Bushmen. Depends what western African populations, because like you said West Africa includes sub-Saharan and Saharan (north) populations. [QUOTE]But the division of Africa into North and Sub-Sahara is subjective because North Africa can strictly mean only those nations that border the Mediterranean while the more inclusive definition is all African nations bordered by the Sahara desert which include not only Sudan, but Chad, Mali, and Niger which happen to include populations that approximate the 'true negro' type. Not to mention the fact that during pluvial periods the Sahara did not even exist with North Africa being as green and fertile as sub-Sahara thus NO barrier to population movements and gene-flows. It is for this very reason that Brace's clines model also fails.[/QUOTE]The Sahara desert as a barrier or non-barrier is irrelevant (and I've actually argued since 2013 it was [i]not[/i] a barrier), those populations in north Africa are distinguishable to those further south. Nothing falsifies Brace's model of clines. [QUOTE]In your warped mind, prehistoric populations just moved one way with Africans heading northeast leaving the continent in the initial Out-of-Africa expansion over 65kya during the Pleistocene, thus northeast Africans like the Egyptians would be genetically closer to Eurasians than to sub-Saharans right? The problem is that this premise is based on the assumption that all populations at least in Africa became static after the Out-of-Africa even and no longer moved. This of course is absurd considering that all populations during the Paleolithic were nomadic hunter-gatherers.[/QUOTE]I don't believe in OOA. I've always criticized it. I'm arguing for a long-term isolation-by-distance model. Also, Brace is a critic of Out of Africa. [QUOTE]The ancient Nile Valley dwellers may not have been as closely related to West and Central Africans, as some Afrocentrics wish but they definitely were more related than they were to modern Europeans or Near Easterners. [/QUOTE]Depends what populations you mean, but I generally disagree with this. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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