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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrannohotep: [QB] That said, the common refrain that "AE would have been closer genetically/culturally to Middle Easterners than to SSA" seems to be often used in a specious manner in my observation. The genetic argument may not be [i]technically[/i] wrong when you consider population substructure in Africa, but look at the graph I posted earlier. Again, you'll find that even West/Central Africans are closer genetically (as in less divergent) to OOAs than are Khoisan. Yeah they're both commonly lumped together as "sub-Saharan Africans" in popular discourse. It should go to show you that "SSA" itself isn't a singular population cluster, let alone a single cultural grouping. Furthermore, it's no secret that Africa is a vast continent. For example, Zululand is as far away from Nigeria as California is from New England. Again, that hasn't stopped anyone from lumping Nigerian and South African cultures into a shared "sub-Saharan" category. [URL=https://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography]The True Size of Africa[/URL] Not that I'm necessarily arguing that SSA isn't a useful label at all. It's not my favorite phrase personally, since its usage has often gone hand in hand with the assumption that only SSA are authentically African whereas North Africans have always been transplants from Eurasia. However, when I see posters like beyoku or Swenet use the label, I presume they're using it as a familiar catch-all for African ancestry that's not North African. And you do need such catch-alls when you're comparing and contrasting one specific region of a continent with all the others. Besides, I'm damn tired of bickering over nomenclature. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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