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| Ancestors of ancient Egyptians came from Europe and Middle East, says study | |
| 2017-06-01 | |
| [RT] Ancient Egyptians were more closely related to people from the Middle East and Europe than those from Central Africa, according to a genetic analysis of mummies’ DNA. A team of international scientists from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany analyzed the DNA of 90 Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE. The Egyptians had been around for something over thousand years before 1400 B.C, a date which is contemporary with the Aryan expansion from Central Asia. Breasted, writing in 1905, or published anyway, was of the opinion they were Libyans. Black Lives Matter and such pseudohistorians say they were black, based on an artistic style from one Middle Kingdom reign, ignoring the Egyptians' own representations of themselves (men were dark red, women white) and their representations of Africans. Amazingly, the team’s findings revealed that the mummies’ closest kin were ancient farmers from the Levant – a historical term for a large geographic area in the eastern Mediterranean that includes Israel and Jordan. The study, published in Nature, also claims that ancient Egyptians were closely related to Neolithic populations from the Anatolian Peninsula, an area made up of the majority of modern-day Turkey and Europe.
[DW] Humans and great apes parted ways in Africa with the development of the first pre-humans, many experts believe. But there might be a completely different explanation: Are the Balkans the cradle of humanity? The lines of descent of today's chimpanzees and humans may have split in Europe and not - as is often believed - in Africa, according to researchers at a German university. What is more, this evolutionary step may have occurred a few hundred thousand years earlier than previously assumed, the researchers say. The revolutionary theory was presented in the periodical "PLOS One" by a team of researchers led by Madelaine Böhme at the Tubingen-based Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (HEP). Dental root as evidence The team headed by Böhme examined the only two existing specimens of the "Graecopithecus freybergi" hominid, nicknamed "El Graeco" by researchers. This tooth of the "Graecopithecus freybergi" was discovered in Bulgaria The hominid species includes humans and their fossil ancestors as well as some of the great apes. The specimens concerned are a lower jaw found in Greece (above photo) and a tooth discovered in Bulgaria. After detailed analyses, the research team concluded that Graecopithecus was a pre-human species hitherto unknown. For example, the dental roots were, for the most part, fused - a feature that is characteristic of humans and their extinct relatives. Great apes usually have separate dental roots. "We were surprised by our results, as pre-humans were previously known only from sub-Saharan Africa," said Jochen Fuss, one of the researchers involved in the study. After analyzing the sediments from which the fossils had been retrieved, the research team dated the lower jaw to 7.175 million years and the tooth to 7.24 million years ago. That makes the two specimens older than than the hitherto oldest known pre-human from Africa, Sahelanthropus, which is dated to about 6 to 7 million years ago. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Through eons of hateful adversity Evolves our pristine university: "Yo, cuz, where ya from?" "All them bloods is so dumb." Such a rainbow of racist diversity. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-06-01 21:58 |
| #9 Anyone remember Piltdown Man |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-06-01 21:56 |
| #8 Wallace Fard Muhammad hardest hit. |
| Posted by: charger 2017-06-01 18:56 |
| #7 Kind of puts a new spin on Kwanzaa, that's for sure. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2017-06-01 15:02 |
| #6 They went for the climate. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-06-01 13:51 |
| #5 "We were surprised by our results, as pre-humans were previously known only from sub-Saharan Africa," You only look in one place, you only find in one place. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-01 08:37 |
| #4 The Macedonians also had a habit of inter-marriage, I'm sure the Paks would be envious. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-06-01 08:31 |
| #3 This ignoring the later assimilation of the Egyptian upper classes after Alexander the Great's conquest. SOP for the conquered lands under Alexander was the tactical commanders assumed the titles of the existing rulers, and basically pretended to be the old leaders. The commoners never saw the kings, so how would they know. Oh, and build a new center of commerce and trade. Name it : Alexandria. (They did this about a dozen times.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-06-01 08:15 |
| #2 You're telling me this is bullshi* ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-01 03:10 |
| #1 Taking into account that it's PLoSOne (wannabe Nature) the first protohumans in Africa were colonizers? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-01 02:52 |