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**TyncTyncSah** · 08-18-2010, 04:11 AM

Light skinned Africans. duh.

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I fully agree with you that phenotypic diversity is not the result of admixture. But the "Fulani" cluster in the Tishkoff study is relatively close to the "Cushitic" cluster, and people with ancestry from the Cushitic cluster are closer to Eurasia on the plots than Niger-Kordofanian people are. Even though Tishkoff believes that these clusters are all indigenous to Africa, and part of African genetic diversity.

This is why Bandar said that they would have a "pull" towards Eurasia compared to other West Africans, he didn't mean to say that they are West Africans with Eurasian admixture.

True, bot the Fulani and Cushitic ancestral groups cluster together for the most part in regard to linkage with the other ancestral clusters... and while they're closer to the non-African clusters, it's not by much... it's not intermediate.

On the other hand, the Fulani people are MUCH more closer to the other Niger-Kordofanian speaking populations. They overlap and cluster together.

08-18-2010, 04:11 AM	#35
TyncTyncSah Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 569 Senior Member	Light skinned Africans. duh. ---------- Post added 2010-08-17 at 20:15 ---------- I fully agree with you that phenotypic diversity is not the result of admixture. But the "Fulani" cluster in the Tishkoff study is relatively close to the "Cushitic" cluster, and people with ancestry from the Cushitic cluster are closer to Eurasia on the plots than Niger-Kordofanian people are. Even though Tishkoff believes that these clusters are all indigenous to Africa, and part of African genetic diversity. This is why Bandar said that they would have a "pull" towards Eurasia compared to other West Africans, he didn't mean to say that they are West Africans with Eurasian admixture. True, bot the Fulani and Cushitic ancestral groups cluster together for the most part in regard to linkage with the other ancestral clusters... and while they're closer to the non-African clusters, it's not by much... it's not intermediate. On the other hand, the Fulani people are MUCH more closer to the other Niger-Kordofanian speaking populations. They overlap and cluster together.
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