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Niche info here, only for those interested in the origins of man.

The following clip is from a documentary about the Andaman Islanders, an indigneous ancient tribe in the South Indian sea, who look almost exactly like Pygmy Africans.

According to the clip here, the MtDNA from the female lineage point back to ancient African populations, but the YDNA from the male lineage point to ancient Asian populations OLDER than the mtDNA from the female lineage. This conflicts with the idea of a recent Out of Africa expansion of Homo Sapiens, since if that was the case, the YDNA would be African too or at least not as old. In addition, as the female scientist says, we know that archaic (pre-sapiens) humans lived in Africa such as Homo Erectus and walked from there to all corners of the ancient world.

You can hear the scientist from Europe be disturbed by this because she is a staunch OoA believer, but as the Asian scientist says, this is fairly strong suggestive of the so called Multi Regional Hypothesis, claiming that all humans descend not from a single line of of recent Homo Sapiens (about 100.00 years ago) Out of Africa migration, but from the far older Homo Erectus migration out of Africa.

When the YDNA (Asian origin) of these islanders is older than the MtDNA of the islanders (African origin), that actually suggest an IN TO AFRICA migration.

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This looks interesting.

I first heard about the Andaman Islanders in a Sherlock Holmes story...I think it was the Sign of Four.

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(07-31-2016 10:50 PM)RexImperator Wrote:  This looks interesting.

I first heard about the Andaman Islanders in a Sherlock Holmes story...I think it was the Sign of Four.

It's a complete mystery, they were known as cannibals (most likely a lie) and apparantly hostile, but it's still very strange how a clearly African population live on islands close to Burma.