PopulationsHorn of AfrLatin AmericaWest AfricaSouth AfricaEuropeansEast AfricaGenetic variationRacialSubcontinentGenesGenome-wideMigrationsIndiaAncestralGeneticallyDefnitionTraditionallyAncestorsImmigrantsCaucasianHumanGeographical regionsDescentPeopleHispanicsMiddle EastPrevalenceRacismGroupsAmericasBlendFamiliesLineagesMigrationHumansCoefficientWhiteInsightMorphologicalRevealsScientistsSimilaritiesSpeciesCaribbeanSlavesMexicanClusterConsiderableBelongPopulationRecognizeLatinoIdeologiesHistoryEuropeanGroup
Populations22
- The best evidence supports 21 ancestries that delineate genetic structure of present-day human populations. (nature.com)
- Initial efforts to characterize the movement of early humans in relation to ancestry grouped populations according to five geographical regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe/the Middle East/Central Asia/South Asia, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas 9 . (nature.com)
- The population frequency of the indel (rs66698963) is remarkably different among human populations with the insertion being far more frequent in South Asians, Africans and some East Asian populations, and far less common in European and other East Asian populations. (fatsoflife.com)
- Obviously individuals and populations exhibit genetic relationships to each other contingent upon the patterns of the variation of base pairs (A, C, G, and T) across the genomes of individuals, but there's no reasonable way to comprehend this 'by eye' when you're talking about hundreds of thousands of markers. (discovermagazine.com)
- Notice above that the first dimension of variation (PC1) separates the Europeans from all the African populations. (discovermagazine.com)
- The second dimension of variation (PC2) separates the hunter-gatherer populations of Africa from the agriculturalists. (discovermagazine.com)
- The African Americans are distributed almost perfectly along a line between the West African populations and the European Americans. (discovermagazine.com)
- Modern American Indian traditionalists vehemently reject the notion that they are derived from or share ancestry with any other human populations (especially Africans. (evostudies.org)
- Divergent natural selection caused by differences in solar exposure has resulted in distinctive variations in skin color between human populations. (blogspot.com)
- The derived light skin color allele of the SLC24A5 gene, A111T, predominates in populations of Western Eurasian ancestry. (blogspot.com)
- For example, in Latin America, a significant portion of the male population can trace their paternal lineage back to Europe due to migration of European males who fathered children with Native American women, though other populations have also contributed to the region's genetic diversity. (objectivelists.com)
- While the maternal lineage of most Latin Americans cannot be traced to Europe, European mitochondrial DNA lineages can still be found in some populations. (objectivelists.com)
- This signature is not present to the same extent, or at all, in present-day Northern and Central Americans or in a ∼ 12,600-year-old Clovis-associated genome, suggesting a more diverse set of founding populations of the Americas than previously accepted. (nature.com)
- Figure 1: South Americans share ancestry with Australasian populations that is not seen in Mesoamericans or North Americans. (nature.com)
- My narrative of early human migration begins with the movement of the densest human populations from equatorial East Africa to the northern savannas of Africa. (historycooperative.org)
- Further, I argue that this same wave of migration continued north of the Pacific and to the Americas, also in the period before the great Ice Age beginning 30,000 B.P. Thereafter, the initial populations in each major world region continued to differentiate into subgroups. (historycooperative.org)
- Researchers have analyzed genetic variation in people across India and discovered that most Indian people today descended from 2 ancestral populations. (nih.gov)
- The finding that a large proportion of modern Indians descend from founder events means that India is genetically not a single large population, but instead is best described as many smaller isolated populations," says Singh. (nih.gov)
- Most Indian populations, the researchers found, are primarily mixtures of 2 ancestral groups, which they call the Ancestral North Indians (ANI) and the Ancestral South Indians (ASI). (nih.gov)
- Medically, the results imply an increased risk of recessive genetic diseases in Indian populations. (nih.gov)
- her body type is common to only small populations of people----her tribe si not the african norm. (femininebeauty.info)
- He also claims that these races result from the fact that since our species left Africa, the populations of each continent have evolved largely independently of one another as each adapted to its own regional environment (p. 2). (thisviewoflife.com)
Horn of Afr1
- They are most heavily concentrated on the Horn of Africa. (objectivelists.com)
Latin America1
- Hispanic and Latino Americans are retreats in the popular tiles of Latin America and Spain. (web-wattenbeker-energieberatung.de)
West Africa2
- While the Mandenka are from Senegal, the Yoruba are from Nigeria, at opposite ends of what is traditionally termed West Africa. (discovermagazine.com)
- other less widespread hemoglobinopathies are hemoglobin C (HbC), which is particularly common in West Africa and hemoglobin D (HbD), more prevalent in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and India. (scielo.br)
South Africa1
- Africans have more genetic variation than anyone else on Earth, according to a new study that helps narrow the location where humans first evolved, probably near the South Africa-Namibia border. (easierwithpractice.com)
Europeans1
- The distributions of C11 and its parental haplotypes make it most likely that these two last steps occurred between the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, with the A111T mutation occurring after the split between the ancestors of Europeans and East Asians. (blogspot.com)
East Africa1
- what about womenin north africa, east africa, adn for that matter u knocked out much o f west. (femininebeauty.info)
Genetic variation2
- Genetic variation and population structure in Native Americans. (nature.com)
- A group of scientists led by Dr. David Reich of Harvard and Dr. Lalji Singh of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India, undertook the largest survey ever done of genetic variation among people in India. (nih.gov)
Racial7
- Ancestry includes two major components: their racial group and parental lineage derived by genetic studies. (objectivelists.com)
- Despite some superficial similarities in appearance to Sub-Saharan Africans, they are actually the least genetically similar of any two major racial groups. (objectivelists.com)
- There is great controversy about the correct racial classification of Indians. (objectivelists.com)
- Lincoln challenged the veracity of defense depositions that claimed that Dungey was known to be of mixed racial ancestry. (ericfoner.com)
- This case is one of hundreds in American history in which a person's racial identity became a matter of le gal dispute. (ericfoner.com)
- Musings on My Tri-racial Black and Puerto Rican Ancestry. (radiantrootsboricuabranches.com)
- Pluralism Ethnic and racial differences should thrive (as long they are not a threat to dominant culture) This happened in the 70s in the US African Americans Hispanics All gaining momentum in labour force. (slideshare.net)
Subcontinent4
- Additional data from the Indian subcontinent and Arabic, Polynesian and Latin American countries, as well as Africa will further improve these equations in the future. (ersjournals.com)
- The distributions of C11 and its parental haplotypes make it most likely that these two last steps occurred between the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent,' Looks to me more like between West Asia (minus Arabia) and western part of South_Central Asia (minus India). (blogspot.com)
- Indians are primarily located on the Indian subcontinent. (objectivelists.com)
- Most reasonable people will probably accede to the clear overwhelming descent of South Asian Muslims from the native people of the Indian subcontinent , but the genetics clinches that. (sepiamutiny.com)
Genes2
- So, we've got genes for long distance running in West Africans because of their history of cattle rustling, genes for opp osable thumbs because, well, because of almost any explanation for why they make us human, and even genes for ping pong prowess in China (although the proposed adaptive reason for this escapes us at the moment, but there is one). (blogspot.com)
- The findings set the stage for identifying genes that contribute to disease in people of Indian decent. (nih.gov)
Genome-wide2
- Here we analyse genome-wide data to show that some Amazonian Native Americans descend partly from a Native American founding population that carried ancestry more closely related to indigenous Australians, New Guineans and Andaman Islanders than to any present-day Eurasians or Native Americans. (nature.com)
- But although India is the world's second most populous nation, Indian people have thus far been underrepresented in genome-wide surveys of human variation. (nih.gov)
Migrations2
- Genetic and archaeological studies have established a sub-Saharan African origin for anatomically modern humans with subsequent migrations out of Africa. (nature.com)
- The maps and descriptions of early human migration tend to neglect migrations within Africa and include arrows suggesting a general dispersion of migrants from Africa in several directions. (historycooperative.org)
India3
- Within hemoglobinopathies, sickle cell disease is the most common and is mainly widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, India and among people of African descent living in Europe and North, Central and South America 4 4 Cataldo F. Immigration and changes in the epidemiology of hemoglobin disorders in Italy: an emerging public health burden. (scielo.br)
- Indigenous Andaman Islanders have exclusively ASI ancestry, but such groups weren't found in mainland India. (nih.gov)
- PMID:18382426 assessed in eleven studies in Africa and India. (who.int)
Ancestral4
- It turns out that the average African ancestral contribution to to African Americans is ~80%, with the balance being mostly European (there is some Native American, but not much). (discovermagazine.com)
- For example, American Indian creation narratives claim that their great spirit created their people on their ancestral tribal land. (evostudies.org)
- Researchers led by Ulf Gyllensten of the University of Uppsala in Sweden have found evidence that we are all descended from a single ancestral group that lived in Africa about 170,000 years ago1. (easierwithpractice.com)
- The number of ancestral groups, K, is chosen to produce a best estimate of these probabilities, which are averaged over all genetic markers to assign a membership coefficient, namely a fraction of each individual's ancestry to one of the ancestral groups (Feldman 2010. (thisviewoflife.com)
Genetically1
- Ancestry data support the grouping of Kwadi-Khoe, Kx'a, and Tuu languages, support the exclusion of Omotic languages from the Afroasiatic language family, and do not support the proposed Dené-Yeniseian language family as a genetically valid grouping. (nature.com)
Defnition2
- If his country adopted the American defnition in reverse, Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier once quipped, 98 percent of his people would be white. (ericfoner.com)
- the "square" si the new term abuzz in the garment industry because it applies to teh majoriy tof white women in america---- less waist defnition, balanced hips/shoulders/chest. (femininebeauty.info)
Traditionally1
- The United States has traditionally operated according to the "one-drop" rule, whereby ancestry, not simply appearance, determines whether one is white or black. (ericfoner.com)
Ancestors4
- That is because almost no African American whose ancestors are not recent immigrants from Africa lack white ancestry. (discovermagazine.com)
- For example, some American Indians of the Northwest claimed that they should have sovereignty over the remains of the Kennewick man fossil under the assumption that because the bones were found in territory that their tribe once inhabited, that the remains had to be one of their tribal ancestors 1 . (evostudies.org)
- On the historical time scales that I'll be addressing our ancestors were considered Indians ("Hindus") by the rest of the world, and this seems a time where this clarity of terminology should trump contemporary geopolitical valences. (sepiamutiny.com)
- This blogpost is dedicated to both my Lyon-Green-Merritt African-American ancestors who left the Byram and Sherwood's Bridge (Glenville) sections of Greenwich to settle the neighborhood of Hangroot. (radiantrootsboricuabranches.com)
Immigrants3
- Many Belizeans are of mixed ancestry, most of them descendants of immigrants. (britannica.com)
- People of European and South Asian ancestry are also present, as are smaller numbers of immigrants from China, the Middle East , and elsewhere. (britannica.com)
- Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America. (riazhaq.com)
Caucasian1
- Some scientists spoke of three races of mankind: The Caucasian race living in Europe, North Africa and West Asia, the Mongoloid race living in East Asia, Australia, and the Americas, and the Negroid race living in Africa south of the Sahara. (easierwithpractice.com)
Human11
- The population frequency of the allele corresponding to the rs66698963 insertion (allele named I) or deletion (allele named D) was determined from genomic DNA extracted from human samples (blood, breast milk, and placenta) obtained from several participating institutions in the US and Canada (n=211, nearly all from Kansas City), as well as from a group of Asian Indians (n=76). (fatsoflife.com)
- The data indicate that the majority of Americans accept a Biblical account of the origin of the human species. (evostudies.org)
- 1 : any one of the groups that human beings are often divided into based on physical traits or ancestry. (easierwithpractice.com)
- Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. (easierwithpractice.com)
- Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Cerca Grande, Lagoa Santa, Central Brazil, and the origins of the first Americans. (nature.com)
- DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America. (nature.com)
- Late Pleistocene human skeleton and mtDNA link Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans. (nature.com)
- Neves, W. A., Hubbe, M. & Correal, G. Human skeletal remains from Sabana de Bogota, Colombia: a case of Paleoamerican morphology late survival in South America? (nature.com)
- that race is a scientifically or epistemologically valid schema for human biological variation. (darkademic.co.uk)
- But while both geneticists and paleontologists carried on vigorous debates until each field had confirmed a widely accepted interpretation of the data-one that confirmed the "out of Africa" vision of human origins and dispersal-historical linguists have chosen not to give priority either to resolving their classificatory differences or to developing broad interpretations of human migration. (historycooperative.org)
- Revisiting Ameghino: New 14C Dates from Ancient Human Skeletons from the Argentine Pampas," in Peuplements et Préhistoire en Amériques. (kinshipstudies.org)
Geographical regions1
- The distribution of hemoglobinopathies in different geographical regions of Colombia is influenced by ancestry. (scielo.br)
Descent1
- G6PD deficiency has a high prevalence in people of African, Asian, and Mediterranean descent. (medscape.com)
People9
- English-speaking people of largely African and British ancestry, who are called Creole , account for more than one-fourth of the population and predominate in the central coastal regions. (britannica.com)
- Left to their own initiative, people will always attempt to move from 'worse' to 'better' societies, but if this happens en masse , it will contribute to the decay of the very societies that they seek out. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
- 25% of a country's demographic score (5% of the overall Country Similarity Index score) is allocated for the ancestry of the people in a country. (objectivelists.com)
- East Eurasians include both East Asian people and Native American people, while West Eurasians are generally from Europe and the Middle East. (objectivelists.com)
- Gene clustering suggests Indians have traits of both West Eurasian and Australo-Melanesian people. (objectivelists.com)
- Hamites are generally in countries where West Eurasian people interacted heavily with Sub-Saharan African people. (objectivelists.com)
- I am, for example, kind of tired of listening to brown people talk about their non-Indian ancestry, whether it be Syrian Christians who claim Jewish antecedents, Jatts who claim Scythian antecedents, or Muslims who claim Arab, Turk, or Persian origins. (sepiamutiny.com)
- Second, I do know that finding ancestry from various groups can change how people view themselves. (sepiamutiny.com)
- The small differences between people are called genetic variations. (nih.gov)
Hispanics1
- Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Island- ers, and Hispanics -- patterns of tobacco use, adverse health effects, and the effective- ness of interventions need to be understood in terms of tobacco's cultural and socio- economic effects on the members of these groups. (cdc.gov)
Middle East2
- A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. (easierwithpractice.com)
- Risk for MRSA in returning travelers ranged from 0.1 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.01-0.4) per 1 million travelers to Nordic countries to 59.4 (95% CI 44.5-79.3) per 1 million travelers to North Africa and the Middle East. (cdc.gov)
Prevalence1
- The aim of this review was to quantify the global variation in childhood myopia prevalence over time taking account of demographic and study design factors. (bmj.com)
Racism1
- honestly, as far as we think we've moved away from racism we really haven't at all…ppl made a huge deal about Obama as 1st black president and how it was such a big step for America and to a certain degree I might agree yet one really has to wonder how far we've come because all anyone could talk about was his race…First Black President! (caymannewsservice.com)
Groups4
- After discarding 23,572 records, mostly because they could not be combined with other ethnic or geographic groups, reference equations were derived for healthy individuals aged 3-95 yrs for Caucasians (n=57,395), African-Americans (n=3,545), and North (n=4,992) and South East Asians (n=8,255). (ersjournals.com)
- The state officially categorizes its population into six groups: white, African American, Native American/Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander, Asian, and Native Hawaiian. (easierwithpractice.com)
- From those groups, Americans identity with ethnic groups that are even more specific. (easierwithpractice.com)
- STRUCTURE is an algorithm designed to infer population structure (cluster individuals into ancestry groups) within a species (Pritchard, Stephens, and Donnelly 2000. (thisviewoflife.com)
Americas1
- The two parental precursor haplotypes are found from East Asia to the Americas but are nearly absent in Africa. (blogspot.com)
Blend1
- The United States of America is a rich blend of cultures. (cdc.gov)
Families1
- We estimated correlation coefficients ranging from 0.522 to 0.962 between ancestries and language families or branches. (nature.com)
Lineages1
- It's worth noting that while Y-chromosome DNA analysis and mitochondrial DNA analysis are commonly used to study paternal and maternal lineages, respectively, other genetic markers and methods can also be used to explore genetic ancestry. (objectivelists.com)
Migration2
- Using a graph-based model of gene flow to estimate migration events from ancestry-specific allele frequencies 37 , we find evidence for migration events in the distant past. (nature.com)
- While it is accepted that all humanity came "out of Africa," there remain disputes on the path and timing of migration from Africa to other regions. (historycooperative.org)
Humans1
- The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa. (easierwithpractice.com)
Coefficient1
- Lung function data were collated and prediction equations derived using the LMS method, which allows simultaneous modelling of the mean (mu), the coefficient of variation (sigma) and skewness (lambda) of a distribution family. (ersjournals.com)
White3
- Once these slaves came to the United States some of then had children with white Americans. (discovermagazine.com)
- OMB requires five minimum categories: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. (easierwithpractice.com)
- most african women are shaped sorta liek white women, jsut about ten pounds heavier at the same height(that is what i read in a legitimte study--if u want some info, jsut let me know)also , they tend to have larger breastsa nd hips for that same body size and slightly mroe muscle mass for the same weight. (femininebeauty.info)
Insight1
- Ancestry data yield insight into a deeper past than linguistic data can, while linguistic data provide clarity to ancestry data. (nature.com)
Morphological1
- Due to their morphological similarities (not including their considerable variation in coat color and pattern), the genus Panthera has undergone substantial taxonomic rearrangements over the last century. (biorxiv.org)
Reveals1
- Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans. (nature.com)
Scientists1
- The scientists analyzed over 560,000 single-letter DNA variations called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the genomes. (nih.gov)
Similarities1
- For out-of-America I to be correct, all the genetic and biological similarities between Hominidae, Hylobatidae and Cercopithecidae need to be reinterpreted, very implausibly, as homoplasies or products of convergent evolution. (kinshipstudies.org)
Species1
- 1] Scholars in the field of genetics have established that Homo sapiens originated in Africa in about 200,000 B.P., and that our species subsequently displaced all previous hominid species. (historycooperative.org)
Caribbean2
- Seville Heritage Park is also illustrative of an environmental and societal evolution that is distinctly Caribbean, but owes its emergence to the African-European cultural coalescence. (unesco.org)
- Until recently, a large show box could contain the primate fossils from all of South America and the Caribbean from the last 30 million years. (kinshipstudies.org)
Slaves3
- This was the presumed source of most of the African slaves who arrived in the United States. (discovermagazine.com)
- The first African slaves arrived in 1616, but as the slave trade ceased by the end of the 17th century, the colony developed into a base for merchants, privateers, and the Royal Navy. (agreatertown.com)
- Notably, Seville was one of the first sites in the region to have received a steady flow of African slaves working the sugar plantations under the Spaniards. (unesco.org)
Mexican4
- What is my race if I am Mexican American? (easierwithpractice.com)
- Ethnicity Categories Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. (easierwithpractice.com)
- He spoke in Mexican accented English but he told us his father came from the Punjab region now in Pakistan and his mother was of Mexican ancestry. (riazhaq.com)
- Karen Leonard, a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine and author of " Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans ", says that there were almost 2,000 Punjabi men living in California in the early 1900s, and approximately one-third of them married (or re-married) after settling in the state. (riazhaq.com)
Cluster2
- Notice that on the PCA plot no African American falls in the Mandenka-Yoruba cluster. (discovermagazine.com)
- Observe that the density seems to decrease as you approach the European American cluster. (discovermagazine.com)
Considerable1
- There are, however, considerable yearly variations throughout the country . (britannica.com)
Belong1
- The majority of African Americans belong to Protestant denominations that are fundamentalist. (evostudies.org)
Population4
- These data validate what I have always known, African Americans are ½ as likely as the general population to accept evolution as a valid explanation and 1.4 times more likely to accept the Biblical account. (evostudies.org)
- Finally within Biblical account, the literalist explanation (6 days) was 76% about the same as the general population (but remember a larger percentage of African Americans reject evolution. (evostudies.org)
- Those of mixed Mayan and Spanish heritage (mestizos) constitute the largest ethnic group (about one-half of the population) and predominate in the more sparsely inhabited interior, along with the Maya (Yucatec Maya in the north and Mopán and Kekchí Maya in the south), who account for nearly one-tenth of the population. (britannica.com)
- Reconstructing Native American population history. (nature.com)
Recognize1
- But the women and men we recognize as having made significant contributions toward American politics and jurisprudence have been great, not despite their flaws, but because they struggled to master them. (vnews.com)
Latino2
- Not each special non-core contains Creative or Latino and Hispanic or Latino Americans. (web-wattenbeker-energieberatung.de)
- publish the credit on Hispanic and Latino Americans in this Introduction. (web-wattenbeker-energieberatung.de)
Ideologies1
- It will be hard to get it back, particularly because social media and the news cycle have led to such fractured, kaleidoscopic perceptions and ideologies that Americans can't even agree on what reality is. (vnews.com)
History1
- New York: American Museum of Natural History). (kinshipstudies.org)
European2
- The above plot is from Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans , a 2009 paper with 94 Africans of diverse geographic origins, 136 African Americans, and 38 European Americans. (discovermagazine.com)
- Ironically, unlike the Southern Baptist Convention (which is predominantly European American and was founded on segregationist principles), the NBC hasn't invested a great deal of energy in the Evolution/Creation debate. (evostudies.org)
Group1
- Genetic variations affect individual characteristics, such as eye color and blood group. (nih.gov)