EdwardSmith
12-15-2007, 07:52 PM
I have noticed, from pictures and video clips of africans, that some native sub-saharan
africans look more caucasoid than one would expect; some of them look significantly
more caucasoid than many african americans.
There was a gradual, major migration in africa, of the bantu people, who spread from the
border of Nigeria and Cameroon to the south and east, throughout much of sub-saharan
africa. The bantus thrived because they out-competed their contemporaries, due to using
superior technology. The bantus also had a superior language, which nearby africans
adopted. There was also much interbreeding between the bantus and the indigenous
non-bantu people, such that the original bantu people may no longer exist.
The bantus mostly belonged to y-haplogroup E3a. However, in northern Cameroon, near
the original range of the bantus, is an unusually high frequency of y-haplogroup R1*, which
is the closest relative of the caucasian haplogroups R1a and R1b. The R1* haplogroup
most likely established itself in Cameroon during the last glacial maximum, when a
primitive european population migrated south. Women with fathers of a particular
y-haplogroup can breed with men of a different y-haplogroup, such that autosomal genes
that are associated with one haplogroup can be transferred to another haplogroup if they
are in geographical vicinity. I therefore conclude that it is this caucasoid admixture that is
responsible for both the relatively caucasoid look of some native sub-saharan africans,
and the technological superiority of the bantus and their consequent successful expansion.
africans look more caucasoid than one would expect; some of them look significantly
more caucasoid than many african americans.
There was a gradual, major migration in africa, of the bantu people, who spread from the
border of Nigeria and Cameroon to the south and east, throughout much of sub-saharan
africa. The bantus thrived because they out-competed their contemporaries, due to using
superior technology. The bantus also had a superior language, which nearby africans
adopted. There was also much interbreeding between the bantus and the indigenous
non-bantu people, such that the original bantu people may no longer exist.
The bantus mostly belonged to y-haplogroup E3a. However, in northern Cameroon, near
the original range of the bantus, is an unusually high frequency of y-haplogroup R1*, which
is the closest relative of the caucasian haplogroups R1a and R1b. The R1* haplogroup
most likely established itself in Cameroon during the last glacial maximum, when a
primitive european population migrated south. Women with fathers of a particular
y-haplogroup can breed with men of a different y-haplogroup, such that autosomal genes
that are associated with one haplogroup can be transferred to another haplogroup if they
are in geographical vicinity. I therefore conclude that it is this caucasoid admixture that is
responsible for both the relatively caucasoid look of some native sub-saharan africans,
and the technological superiority of the bantus and their consequent successful expansion.