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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…

Ancient Kostenki 14 (Markina Gora) DNA: A Glimpse into a Population on Its Way from America to Africa

Ancient Kostenki 14 (Markina Gora) DNA: A Glimpse into a Population on Its Way from America to Africa

November 10, 2014 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Africans, Amerindian admixture, Amerindians, ancient DNA, Ancient North Eurasian, Aurignacian, Autosomal DNA, Caucasians, D-statistic, EDAR gene, Eurasia, Europeans, Hofmeyr skull, Khoisans, Kostenki 14 (Markina Gora), Lithuanians, Loschbour, Mal'ta, mtDNA hg U, mtDNA hg U2, Neandertals, Neolithic, out-of-Africa, out-of-America, Papuans, Shovel-shaped incisors, Sinodonty, Stuttgart, Ust'-Ishim, West Eurasians, Y-DNA hg C, Y-DNA hg C3

Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0114 Genomic Structure in Europeans Dating Back at Least 36,200 Years Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Martin Sikora, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Andrea Manica, Ida Moltke, Anders Albrechtsen, Amy Ko, Ashot Margaryan, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Ted Goebel, Michael Westaway, David Lambert,…

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 at the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference (October 17-19, 2013)

Out-of-America at the Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference (October 17-19, 2013)

October 2, 2013 · by German Dziebel · in out-of-America, Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference

An email from Michael Waters, Director at the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University, confirms that I’m going to be presenting at the upcoming Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These days, I rarely…

An Out-of-America Signal as Seen Through Human Regulatory Genes

An Out-of-America Signal as Seen Through Human Regulatory Genes

April 17, 2013 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, African substructure, Amerindians, Denisovans, Neandertals, OAS1 gene, out-of-America, Pygmies, Regulatory genes

PLoS Genet 9(4): e1003404. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003404 Balancing Selection on a Regulatory Region Exhibiting Ancient Variation That Predates Human–Neandertal Divergence Omer Gokcumen, Qihui Zhu, Lubbertus C. F. Mulder, Rebecca C. Iskow, Christian Austermann, Christopher D. Scharer, Towfique Raj, Jeremy M. Boss, Shamil…

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,…

Nivkh and Chukotko-Kamchatkan Linguistic Relationship and Its Genetic Correlates

Nivkh and Chukotko-Kamchatkan Linguistic Relationship and Its Genetic Correlates

August 29, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Chukchi, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Itelmen, Koryak, Linguistics, Long-range comparison, mtDNA, Nivkh, Numeral classifiers, out-of-America, Y-DNA

Lingua Vol. 8, Issue 121, June 2011, 1359-1376 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2011.03.001 The Relationship of Nivkh to Chukotko-Kamchatkan Revisited Michael Fortescue With the availability today of reliable materials for comparing the languages that in the past have been lumped together under the rubric…

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…

Out-of-America Antecedents. I. William James Sidis

Out-of-America Antecedents. I. William James Sidis

August 14, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in American democracy, Amerindians, Lewis Henry Morgan, out-of-America, Pragmatism, Transcendentalism, William James, William James Sidis

Out-of-America is a largely unique theory. But even the most unusual theory of all has antecedents. Steve Sailer asks “Didn’t William James Sidis have some kind of Out-of-America theory 90 years ago?” I hereby announce a new theme on this…

The World Without the West: Out-of-America Theory and Eurocentric Cosmologies

The World Without the West: Out-of-America Theory and Eurocentric Cosmologies

August 7, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Eurocentrism, Historiography, medieval cosmologies, out-of-America, Sample bias

A revolution of the magnitude promised by the out-of-America theory of human origins requires a historiographic analysis. We need to understand how come science erred to the degree it did by focusing so exclusively and parochially on Old World centers…

A Three-Wave Model for the Peopling of the Americas, or a Three-Wave Back-Migration from the Americas to the Old World

A Three-Wave Model for the Peopling of the Americas, or a Three-Wave Back-Migration from the Americas to the Old World

July 17, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Admixture, Amerindians, Asia, Eurasia, Genomic, haplogroup X, Linguistic diversity, Linguistics, mtDNA, Odontology, out-of-America, West Eurasians

Nature (2012) doi:10.1038/nature11258 Reconstructing Native American population history Reich, David, et al. The peopling of the Americas has been the subject of extensive genetic, archaeological and linguistic research; however, central questions remain unresolved. One contentious issue is whether the settlement occurred…

The Pontic Steppe vs. the Bactrian Homeland of the Indo-Europeans

July 8, 2012 · by German Dziebel · in Bactrian theory, Burushaski, Indo-European, Indo-European homeland, Kurgan theory, Linguistic diversity, Linguistics, North Caucasian, out-of-America

Dienekes, the confused blogger from my previous post, continues to be confused and confusing. In the comments section of Razib’s Discover Blog, he concedes: “As of late, I am rather more willing to give even Johanna Nichols’ 1997 model of…

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…

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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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