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Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: 16 Jan 2006 04:16:06 -0800
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> Very simply, "all humanity" was far too spread out and well beyond the
> Eastern Hemisphere 2000 years ago. My father's Hopi ancestors, for
> example, were nowhere near any European or Asian people 2000 years ago
> but were exactly where he was born in north-central Arizona and the
> immediately adjacent areas in present-day Utah, New Mexico, Colorado
> and southern Nevada.
And they had absolutely *no* intermarriage with neighbouring tribes?
What Rohde demonstrates is that it really takes quite a low rate of
intermarriage for lineages to spread pretty fast.
> Be careful when you throw around such enormous concepts as "all
> humanity". Bronwen
Be careful when you tell people to "be careful". It sounds patronising.
Nicholas
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