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Amerindians Are Even More Genetically Diverse and Older Than You Thought

Amerindians Are Even More Genetically Diverse and Older Than You Thought

July 23, 2015 · by German Dziebel · in Amerindians

Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3884 Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans Raghavan, Maanasa, Matthias Steinrücken, Kelley Harris, Stephan Schiffels, Simon Rasmussen, Michael DeGiorgio, Anders Albrechtsen, …Eske Willerslev. How and when the Americas were populated remains contentious….

Y-DNA hg C3* in South America and Putative Ancient Transpacific Contacts

Y-DNA hg C3* in South America and Putative Ancient Transpacific Contacts

April 29, 2013 · by German Dziebel · in Ainu, Amerindians, Betty Meggers, Genetics, Jomon pottery, Joseph Greenberg, Linguistics, Long-range comparison, Merritt Ruhlen, Okhotsk culture, out-of-America, Trans-Pacific journeys, Valdivia pottery, Y-DNA, Y-DNA hg C3*

PLoS Genet 9(4): e1003460. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003460 Continent-Wide Decoupling of Y-Chromosomal Genetic Variation from Language and Geography in Native South Americans Lutz Roewer, Michael Nothnagel, Leonor Gusmão, Veronica Gomes, Miguel González, Daniel Corach, Andrea Sala, Evguenia Alechine, Teresinha Palha, Ney Santos, Andrea…

Out-of-Africa as Ghost Science

Out-of-Africa as Ghost Science

November 9, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Brenna Henn, Genetic diversity, Genetics, Linguistic diversity, Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marcus Feldman, out-of-Africa, Serial Founder Effect Model

PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1212380109 The Great Human Expansion Brenna M. Henn, Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza, and Marcus W. Feldman Genetic and paleoanthropological evidence is in accord that today’s human population is the result of a great demic (demographic and geographic) expansion that…

Intense Admixture: Khoisan Clicks and Khoisan Genes in Southeastern Bantu

Intense Admixture: Khoisan Clicks and Khoisan Genes in Southeastern Bantu

September 27, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Bantu, click phonemes, Fwe, Genetics, Khoisans, Linguistics, mtDNA, Pygmies, Shanjo

European Journal of Human Genetics 2012, 1-7 DOI:10.1038/ejhg.2012.192 Genetic Perspectives on the Origin of Clicks in Bantu Languages from Southwestern Zambia Chiara Barbieri, Anne Butthof, Koen Bostoen, and Brigitte Pakendorf Some Bantu languages spoken in southwestern Zambia and neighboring regions…

Clicks and Genes: Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives on Khoisan Prehistory

Clicks and Genes: Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives on Khoisan Prehistory

September 27, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Africans, Bantu, Caucasus, click phonemes, Fst, Genetic divergence, Genetic diversity, Genetics, Genomic, Hadza, homozygosity, Khoisans, Linguistic diversity, Linguistics, Maasai, Mandenka, out-of-Africa, out-of-America, Phylogenetic trees, SNPs

Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1227721 Genomic Variation in Seven Khoe-San Groups Reveals Adaptation and Complex African History Carina M. Schlebusch, Pontus Skoglund, Per Sjödin, Lucie M. Gattepaille, Dena Hernandez, Flora Jay, Sen Li, Michael De Jongh, Andrew Singleton, Michael G. B. Blum,…

Typological Linguistics and Population Genetics: A Synthesis or a Controversy

September 19, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Bayesian phylogenetics, Genetics, Language Universals, Linguistics, Noam Chomsky, out-of-Africa, out-of-America, Phonemic inventory size, Universal Grammar

Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol 16, Issue 3, March 2012, Pages 167–173 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.01.007 Tools from Evolutionary Biology Shed New Light on the Diversification of Languages Stephen C. Levinson, and Russell D. Gray Computational methods have revolutionized evolutionary biology. In this paper…

Dene-Yeniseian Language Family: Evidence for a Back-Migration to the Old World?

Dene-Yeniseian Language Family: Evidence for a Back-Migration to the Old World?

August 24, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Amerindians, Dene-Yeniseian, Edward Vajda, Gary Holton, Genetics, Ket, Linguistics, Mark Sicoli, mtDNA, Musical Protolanguage, Na-Dene, out-of-America, Polysynthetic languages, Y-DNA

The 2012 Dene-Yeniseian Workshop took place on March 24 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Since the seminal presentation by the West Washington University linguist, Edward Vajda, of morphological and lexical evidence relating the small Yeniseian language family from Western…

Genetics and Linguistics of the Bantu Expansion

Genetics and Linguistics of the Bantu Expansion

August 2, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Autosomal DNA, Bantu, Genetic diversity, Genetics, Matrilocality, mtDNA, Patrilocality, Y-DNA

Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 279: 3256-3263. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0318 Bringing Together Linguistic and Genetic Evidence to Test the Bantu Expansion De Filippo, Cesare, Koen Bostoen, Mark Stoneking, and Brigitte Pakendorf. The expansion of Bantu languages represents one of the most momentous…

Social Anthropology and the Bantu Expansion

Social Anthropology and the Bantu Expansion

July 30, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Africans, Anthropology, Bantu, Genetic diversity, Genetics, Matrilocality, mtDNA, Patrilocality, Pygmies, Scientific methodology, Y-DNA

Razib is now officially a fantasy science blogger. When he recently called his readers “stupid, ignorant or lazy” and put up a stringent comments policy (I bet inspired by my own) rallying them to show their “A-game,” I knew it…

A Seismic Shift in Human Origins Research, or a Downward Slide?

July 27, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Africans, mtDNA, mtDNA phylogeny, out-of-Africa, Paleobiology, Science, Scientific methodology, Y-DNA

A new research paper is out which has created a lot of media buzz. “Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers, “ by Joseph Lachance et al. reports “archaic admixture” in three African hunter-gathering populations…

Out-of-Africa in the Mid-Pleistocene: A New Interdisciplinary Paradigm or a New Myth?

July 11, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Africans, Archaeology, Asia, Aurignacian, Biology, Eurasia, Genetic diversity, Kinship studies, Linguistics, Paleobiology, Paleontology

In the comments section on this blog, Dienekes raises the issue of interdisciplinary support for the out-of-America theory. Since I’m a big proponent of interdisciplinarity, the seeming convergence of genetics, archeology and paleobiology on the origin of modern humans in…

Howler Monkeys, Neandertals, Pygmies, Khoisans and More: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2012

Howler Monkeys, Neandertals, Pygmies, Khoisans and More: Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution 2012

June 24, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Africans, Amerindians, Genetics, Khoisans, Linguistics, mtDNA, mtDNA phylogeny, Platyrrhines, Pygmies, Sample bias

As I write, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) is conducting its annual meetings in Dublin, Ireland. Dienekes has many useful pullouts from the available abstracts. I will make short comments on a few of them, plus bring in…

The Pygmy Enigma: Biology, Population Genetics and Linguistics

The Pygmy Enigma: Biology, Population Genetics and Linguistics

May 2, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Africans, Biology, Genetics, Height, Linguistics, Pygmies, Selection

PLoS Genetics 8 (4): e1002641. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002641 Patterns of Ancestry, Signatures of Natural Selection, and Genetic Association with Stature in Western African Pygmies Jarvis, Joseph P., Laura B. Scheinfeldt, Sameer Soi, Charla Lambert, Larsson Omberg, Bart Ferwerda, Alain Froment, Jean-Marie Bodo,…

Phonemic Diversity and out-of-Africa Again: The Myth is Gaining a Momentum

Phonemic Diversity and out-of-Africa Again: The Myth is Gaining a Momentum

April 30, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Africans, Genetics, Linguistics, Long-range comparison, Papuans, Phonemic inventory size, Population size

PLoS ONE 7(4): e35289. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035289 Dating the Origin of Language Using Phonemic Diversity Perreault, Charles, and Sarah Mathew. Abstract Language is a key adaptation of our species, yet we do not know when it evolved. Here, we use data on…

The Effect of Long-Term Endogamy on Identity-By-Descent

The Effect of Long-Term Endogamy on Identity-By-Descent

April 4, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Amerindians, Endogamy, Genetic diversity, Genetics, Identity-by-Descent, Kinship studies, Population size

PLoS ONE 7(4): e34267. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034267 Cryptic Distant Relatives Are Common in Both Isolated and Cosmopolitan Genetic Samples Henn, Brenna M., Lawrence Hon, J. Michael Macpherson, Nick Eriksson, Serge Saxonov, Itsik Pe’er, Joanna L. Mountain. Although a few hundred single nucleotide…

American Indian Uniqueness: Linguistics and Genetics

American Indian Uniqueness: Linguistics and Genetics

March 27, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Amerindians, Genetics, Linguistics

Journal of Linguistic Relationship 5 (2011): 130-134. Similarities among Languages of the Americas: An Exploration of the WALS Evidence Wichmann, Søren, Eric W. Holman, Dietrich Stauffer, and Cecil H. Brown. Abstract. An exploration of WALS (i.e. the World Atlas of…

Are American Indian Populations Subject to Sampling Bias in Human Origins Research?

March 12, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Amerindians, Genetics, Sample bias

The latest post by Dienekes re-kindled an observation that I wanted to make for a long time. Dienekes applied TreeMix software to ADMIXTURE components derived from HapMap-3 populations and created a tree with Sub-Saharan, East African, Northwest African, Gedrosia, Southwest…

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Human Origins as Seen from the Americas

At the time when both the old Out-of-Africa paradigm in human origins research and the Clovis-I paradigm in the study of the origin of American Indians (Native Americans, Amerindians) have failed to account for the rapidly growing body of data, this blog provides a unique and previously unrecognized solution to the puzzle of human origins and dispersals. Drawing on linguistics, kinship studies, ethnology, genetics, paleobiology and archaeology, it brings American Indian populations into the focus on modern human origins research, documents back-migrations of American Indians to the Old World and explores the possibility of modern human origins not in Africa but in America. Only scientific facts are used and only scientific method is employed to derive a theory radically different from mainstream academic and popular science. This said, the blog is not a simple advocacy for an Out-of-America theory but a holistic anthropological critique of Eurocentric, Old World-centric, reductionist, positivist, vulgar materialistic and monodisciplinary approaches to the origin of modern human anatomy, behavior, language and culture. It's my contention that the mainstream science of human origins is driven not only by theory building and data accumulation but also by cultural stereotypes rooted in pre-scientific worldviews. The secondary nature of American Indian populations compared to Old World populations and the recency of human occupation of the Americas is one such stereotype. Correspondingly, the wide-spread belief in the supreme antiquity of Bushmen and Pygmies in Africa is another stereotype. I first sketched out an "Out-of-America" theory of human origins in my two books (the first one was published in Russian, the second one in English) devoted to the phenomenon of human kinship and the global diversity of kinship terminologies.

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The Genius of Kinship (2007) analyzes a database of 2500 kin terminologies to arrive at a number of diachronic universals suggestive of the origin of behaviorally modern humans in the New World

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My 2001 Russian book introduces the phenomenon of kinship as an interdisciplinary field of study (idenetics or gignetics) strategically positioned between linguistics and genetics as a premier source of information about human prehistory.

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