How much neanderthal DNA do Somalis have?

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neandrals left Africa too,dont believe what some whites circulate running away from rest of humans.have seen reliable video talking about that.
 
Neanderthals lived as far south as Syria, so anyone with even a trace of Eurasian DNA will have some Neanderthal DNA.
 
Notice the relationship between Neanderthal and Khoisan in Morocco and northwest Africa. The article also gets into "R" and migrations at 6 and 3 kya.

Ancient Origins: 28 August, 2017

http://www.ancient-origins.net/huma...al-dna-africans-have-it-too-008690?nopaging=1


The Widespread Appearance of Neanderthal DNA: Africans Have It Too

"Neanderthal Tools

Neanderthals used Mousterian tools. These tools were also being used in Africa as early as 130kya. This places Neanderthals in North Africa.

The Neanderthal tools found at Jebel Ighoud and Haua Fteah resemble contemporaneous European Neanderthal tools. The presence of Mousterian tools suggest that Neanderthals mixed with Africans because we know that anatomically modern humans were living in the area at the time.

The North African Neanderthal people used the common Levoiso-Mousterian tool kit originally discovered in Europe. Ki-Zerbo said the Neanderthal skeletons came from Djebel Irhoud and El Guettar in Morocco. Later Neanderthal people used the Aterian tool kit. It was probably in Morocco that Neanderthal and Khoisan interacted.

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Mousterian tools made by Neanderthals. (Didier Descouens/CC BY SA 4.0)

Carleton S. Coon, in The Living Races of Man (1965), Anthropology A to Z (1963), and The Races of Europe (1939), claimed that the Khoisan had formerly lived in North Africa from the Atlas Mountains down into the Fezzan and Sahel. Coon also said that the “The Duwwud also look like Hottentots. Other partly Bushman and partly Negroid people are also to be found in the Sahara.” Coon maintains that the Haritan also include ancient South African Khoisan (SAK) population elements.

Up until M. Gallego Llorente’s Mota man article and the Haber article, researchers claimed that Africans had no relationship to the Neanderthals. But Prufer et al found that the Khoisan share more alleles with Altaic Neanderthal than Denisova.

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Earlier depiction of a Neanderthal. (paleolithicpersonhood)

Haber has noted that derived DNA in all non-Africans is more closely related to Neanderthals from the Caucasus: Alraic Neanderthal(s).

In the Supplemental section of Prufer et al’s work, there is considerable discussion of the relationship between Neanderthal and Khoisan. In relation to the Altaic Neanderthal, non-Africans have a lower divergence rate than Africans - between 10-20%. Prufer et al (2013) note little statistical difference between non-African and African divergence.

An interesting finding made by Prufer et al (2013) was that Altaic Neanderthal and Denisova are estimated to have similar split times. However, the divergence estimates for African Khoisan-Mandekan and Altaic is younger than the split between Africans and Denisova archaic individuals and modern African individuals. The split times between the Khoisan and Mandekan may be explained by the presence of AF-24 haplotype in West Africa.

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Khoisan engaged in roasting grasshoppers on grills. 1805. Aquatint by Samuel Daniell. (Public Domain)

Prufer et al (2013) detected a relationship between Neanderthals and the Mandekan. This is not surprising now that we know the Mandekan have 2% Eurasian ancestry, according to Pickerell et al.

In summary, diverse African populations carry Eurasian ancestry. As a result, researchers will probably find more Africans that carry Neanderthal ancestry in the future.

Top Image: Reconstruction of what a Neanderthal may have looked like in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Source: כ.אלון/ CC BY SA 3.0"

By Clyde Winters
 
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