I hope this has not been posted here anywhere yet. This looks to be a very interesting new study. Both Dienekes and Razib have posted a bit about it.
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/...e-san-via.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gn...ime-and-space/
AJL (10-10-2015)
The study reminds me of the Lemba tribe of southern Africa, which has substantial amounts of yDNA haplogroups J and T as well as a tradition of Middle Eastern origins.
AJL (10-10-2015)
^Yes it is starting to look like many native Africans have some degree of West Eurasian admixture in their genomes.
Heh, I actually made a blog post about this and connected the findings in Pickrell's study to a linguistics paper my broski Agamemnon showed me a while back (even showed Pickrell himself the paper):
The Savanna Pastoral Neolithic: A Cushitic Culture that genetically influenced various Southern Africans
Just a note, since this has been bumped, that this subject has been touched on by a recent study:
http://www.anthrogenica.com/showthre...sian-admixture
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