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World Science en Route from Out-of-Africa to Out-of-America: First Stop is Out-of-Asia

World Science en Route from Out-of-Africa to Out-of-America: First Stop is Out-of-Asia

January 25, 2017 · by German Dziebel · in Africans, Amerindians, Anatole Klyosov, Anatomically Modern Humans, ancient DNA, archaic admixture, Austronesians, Autosomal DNA, Denisovans, East Asians, Genetic divergence, Genetic diversity, Genetics, hominid evolution, Homo sapiens, human origins, Khoisans, Shovel-shaped incisors, Y-DNA, Yuri Berezkin

bioRxiv  doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/101410 Yuan, Dejian, Xiaoyun Lei, Yuanyuan Gui, Zuobin Zhu, Dapeng Wang, Jun Yu, and Shi Huang Modern Human Origins: Multiregional Evolution of Autosomes and East Asia Origin of Y and mtDNA Recent studies have established that genetic diversities are mostly maintained…

Encephalization, Fatty-Acid Metabolism and Modern Human Origins

Encephalization, Fatty-Acid Metabolism and Modern Human Origins

January 11, 2017 · by German Dziebel · in Amerindians

American Journal of Human Genetics 90 (2012), 809–20. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.03.014 Genetic Adaptation of Fatty-Acid Metabolism: A Human-Specific Haplotype Increasing the Biosynthesis of Long-Chain Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids Ameur, Adam, Stefan Enroth, Asa Johansson, Ghazal Zaboli, Wilmar Igl, Anna C.V. Johansson,…

Human Kinship Systems and Human Origins: A Powwow Highway from AAA to AAPA Meetings

December 20, 2014 · by German Dziebel · in American Anthropological Association Meetings, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Amerindians, Anthropocene, Bruno Latour, Dwight Read, Fadwa El-Guindi, Kinship studies, kinship systems, out-of-Africa, out-of-America, Sylvia Yanagisako, Theodore Schurr, William Durham

I recently returned from the American Anthropological Association Meetings in Washington DC where I presented a paper on kinship, enjoyed the company of other members of the interdisciplinary “Kinship Circle” group led by Dwight Read and Fadwa El-Guindi, socialized with my…

The End of Out-of-Africa: A Copernican Reassessment of the Patterns of Genetic Variation in the Old World

November 11, 2013 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Africans, Amerindians, blood group B, blood group O, blood groups, Denisovans, Linguistic diversity, mtDNA, mtDNA phylogeny, Neandertals, out-of-Africa, out-of-America, Pygmies, Y-DNA

Over at Anthrogenica, I’ve been having some heated (as always) but this time also productive discussions regarding the interpretation of currently available genetic evidence. In the following I will sketch out a hypothesis that increasingly makes sense to me. 1….

Out-of-America Theory and the Race Debate

April 7, 2013 · by German Dziebel · in Luca Cavalli-Sforza, out-of-Africa, out-of-America, Race

The topic outlined in the title of this post is huge and I can’t give justice to it at this moment. But considering how dramatic of a revision of modern human evolutionary history the out-of-America theory is offering, it is…

Is Taiwan to Austronesians what America is to Modern Humans?

Is Taiwan to Austronesians what America is to Modern Humans?

April 7, 2013 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Amerindian admixture, Amerindians, Austronesians, Endogamy, Genetic diversity, Linguistic diversity, out-of-Africa, out-of-America, out-of-Taiwan, Polynesians, Serial Founder Effect Model, Southeast Asia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150 (4): 551–564, April 2013 Ascertaining the Role of Taiwan as a Source for the Austronesian Expansion Sheyla Mirabal, Alicia M. Cadenas, Ralph Garcia-Bertrand, and Rene J. Herrera. Taiwanese aborigines have been deemed the ancestors…

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…

A High Coverage of the Denisovan Hominin

A High Coverage of the Denisovan Hominin

September 5, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Africans, Amerindians, ancient DNA, Denisovans, East Asians, EDAR gene, Genetic diversity, Genomic, Hadza, Homo erectus, homozygosity, Linguistic diversity, Odontology, out-of-America, Papuans, Population size, Shovel-shaped incisors, South American Indians, Taurodontism

Science 30 August 2012 DOI: 10.1126/science.1224344 A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual Matthias Meyer, Martin Kircher, Marie-Theres Gansauge, Heng Li, Fernando Racimo, Swapan Mallick, Joshua G. Schraiber, Flora Jay, Kay Prüfer, Cesare de Filippo, Peter H. Sudmant,…

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…

Early Aurignacian Dentition and Why Paleontology Is a Moving Target

Early Aurignacian Dentition and Why Paleontology Is a Moving Target

April 5, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Archaeology, Aurignacian, Odontology, Paleobiology, Paleontology, Scientific methodology, Shovel-shaped incisors

Journal of Human Evolution  (In Press, Corrected Proof) The Early Aurignacian human remains from La Quina-Aval (France) Christine Verna, Véronique Dujardin, and Erik Trinkaus. There is a dearth of diagnostic human remains securely associated with the Early Aurignacian of western…

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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.

German Dziebel’s Books

German Dziebel’s Books

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

Fenomen-Rodstva

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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