Dan Goodman <dsgood@iphouse.com> wrote:

>
> Does that include Inuit and Aleut?
>

See <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/yu-rc092904.php>.

I have *known* Western European, Amerind, Jewish, Arab, Iranian,
Russian, and Khazar ancestors. I'm fairly sure I can document Coptic and
African ancestors as well. It doesn't take much to link everyone.

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In article <1i9dmdb.g8xldd1p883yiN%herwin@theworld.com>,
herwin@theworld.com says...
> Dan Goodman <dsgood@iphouse.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Does that include Inuit and Aleut?
> >
>
> See <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/yu-rc092904.php>.
>
> I have *known* Western European, Amerind, Jewish, Arab, Iranian,
> Russian, and Khazar ancestors. I'm fairly sure I can document Coptic and
> African ancestors as well. It doesn't take much to link everyone.

What about Australian aborigines?

Anyway, the existence of some mixing doesn't mean that populations will
be genetically similar. It's obvious that significant geographical
differences persist to this day.

- Gerry Quinn

Gerry Quinn <gerryq@indigo.ie> wrote:

> In article <1i9dmdb.g8xldd1p883yiN%herwin@theworld.com>,
> herwin@theworld.com says...
> > Dan Goodman <dsgood@iphouse.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Does that include Inuit and Aleut?
> > >
> >
> > See <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/yu-rc092904.php>.
> >
> > I have *known* Western European, Amerind, Jewish, Arab, Iranian,
> > Russian, and Khazar ancestors. I'm fairly sure I can document Coptic and
> > African ancestors as well. It doesn't take much to link everyone.
>
> What about Australian aborigines?
>

Given the pre-settlement contacts with Indonesia--I've heard they found
an elephant skeleton on the Australian coast--I'm sure there was gene
flow. Now Tasmania might have been a different story, but it only takes
one sweepstakes winner surviving on a tree trunk through a storm.

--
Harry Erwin <http://www.theworld.com/~herwin>
My neuroscience wikiwiki is at
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Gerry Quinn wrote:

> In article <1i9dmdb.g8xldd1p883yiN%herwin@theworld.com>,
> herwin@theworld.com says...
> > Dan Goodman <dsgood@iphouse.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Does that include Inuit and Aleut?
> > >
> >
> > See
> > <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/yu-rc092904.php>.
> >
> > I have known Western European, Amerind, Jewish, Arab, Iranian,
> > Russian, and Khazar ancestors. I'm fairly sure I can document
> > Coptic and African ancestors as well. It doesn't take much to link
> > everyone.
>
> What about Australian aborigines?

There were links. 1) Via islands in the Torrey Straits, which had
contact with both New Guinea and Australia. 2) Indonesian fishermen
found good fishing grounds off northern Australia, and got...friendly
with some of the local women.

However, the Tasmanian aborigines are said to have been isolated for
about ten thousand years.
>
> Anyway, the existence of some mixing doesn't mean that populations
> will be genetically similar. It's obvious that significant
> geographical differences persist to this day.
>
> - Gerry Quinn



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Dan Goodman <dsgood@iphouse.com> wrote:

> > What about Australian aborigines?
>
> There were links. 1) Via islands in the Torrey Straits, which had
> contact with both New Guinea and Australia. 2) Indonesian fishermen
> found good fishing grounds off northern Australia, and got...friendly
> with some of the local women.
>
> However, the Tasmanian aborigines are said to have been isolated for
> about ten thousand years.

That was the reason I suggested 9000 years for practically everyone and
12000 for the really isolated tribes.

--
Harry Erwin <http://www.theworld.com/~herwin>
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