Comments on: Your Ancestors Were African http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/ Basab Pradhan's weblog about business and life in a 'flat world'. 6 AM Pacific is the best time for a global conference call. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:45:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: 6 AM Pacific » Blog Archive » Race and Intelligence http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-8974 6 AM Pacific » Blog Archive » Race and Intelligence Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:45:24 +0000 http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-8974 [...] A few months ago I had written about the Genographic Project. I was quite excited about it, as I am about anything that adds to my understanding of myself. I then started toying with the idea of building a website where people of Indian origin could share their haplogroups and a little about themselves. If enough people shared their information, we would then have built a mosaic of a cross-section of Indians. Wouldn’t that be great, I thought, to be able to understand the ancestral origins of different peoples of India? [...] […] A few months ago I had written about the Genographic Project. I was quite excited about it, as I am about anything that adds to my understanding of myself. I then started toying with the idea of building a website where people of Indian origin could share their haplogroups and a little about themselves. If enough people shared their information, we would then have built a mosaic of a cross-section of Indians. Wouldn’t that be great, I thought, to be able to understand the ancestral origins of different peoples of India? […]

]]> By: Chris http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5559 Chris Sat, 03 Mar 2007 05:15:20 +0000 http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5559 What I find fascinating is the move from Africa to today's world in a mere 200,000 years. The document you supplied said that we had been bipedal for 2M years and then homo sapiens evolved 200,000 years ago. Considering the massive changes in humankind, it strokes me as an amazing change in the "blink of an eye" considering a geological (let alone cosmological) time scale. What I find fascinating is the move from Africa to today’s world in a mere 200,000 years. The document you supplied said that we had been bipedal for 2M years and then homo sapiens evolved 200,000 years ago.

Considering the massive changes in humankind, it strokes me as an amazing change in the “blink of an eye” considering a geological (let alone cosmological) time scale.

]]> By: Vikram http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5320 Vikram Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:56:29 +0000 http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5320 Vivek, Do refer to the following book for a detailed, balanced treatment on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Indo-Aryan-Controversy-Edwin-Bryant/dp/0700714634/sr=8-2/qid=1169059505/ref=sr_1_2/002-8829120-4499247?ie=UTF8&s=books Current genographic data paints a broad picture and cannot be used to justify or deny the supposed aryan invasion. Also, there is hardly any archaelogical evidence to prove the invasion. The only "proof" of the supposed invasion is the relationship of Sanskrit to classical European languages. Regards, Vikram Vivek,

Do refer to the following book for a detailed, balanced treatment on the subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Indo-Aryan-Controversy-Edwin-Bryant/dp/0700714634/sr=8-2/qid=1169059505/ref=sr_1_2/002-8829120-4499247?ie=UTF8&s=books

Current genographic data paints a broad picture and cannot be used to justify or deny the supposed aryan invasion. Also, there is hardly any archaelogical evidence to prove the invasion. The only “proof” of the supposed invasion is the relationship of Sanskrit to classical European languages.

Regards,
Vikram

]]> By: Vivek http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5319 Vivek Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:47:33 +0000 http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5319 Could you explain the linguistics part? Could you explain the linguistics part?

]]> By: Basab http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5318 Basab Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:07:10 +0000 http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5318 Krish, I am sure there are a lot of folks making predictions about what human beings will be like in 10-20,000 years. I don't know if its great science though. Vivek, you are correct, it seems to point to that. But given that the margin of error on dating via gene dispersion is 5,000 years you would have to look elsewhere for validation. And according to Vikram (colleague at Gridstone) lingustics analysis of Sanskrit and some of the proto European languages does not point us to the same conclusions. Or at least there is debate over what it does point to. Krish, I am sure there are a lot of folks making predictions about what human beings will be like in 10-20,000 years. I don’t know if its great science though.

Vivek, you are correct, it seems to point to that. But given that the margin of error on dating via gene dispersion is 5,000 years you would have to look elsewhere for validation. And according to Vikram (colleague at Gridstone) lingustics analysis of Sanskrit and some of the proto European languages does not point us to the same conclusions. Or at least there is debate over what it does point to.

]]> By: Vivek http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5303 Vivek Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:52:42 +0000 http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5303 The last paragraph of the word document you attached seems to prove the Aryan Invasion theory. "This distribution adds weight to linguistic and archaeological evidence suggesting that a large migration from the Asian steppes into India occurred within the last 10,000 years. " The last paragraph of the word document you attached seems to prove the Aryan Invasion theory.

“This distribution adds weight to linguistic and archaeological evidence suggesting that a large migration from the Asian steppes into India occurred within the last 10,000 years. “

]]> By: Krish http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5045 Krish Tue, 16 Jan 2007 05:05:11 +0000 http://6ampacific.com/2007/01/15/your-ancestors-were-african/#comment-5045 Interesting. Wonder if there's any science that lets us into the other end - Where we go from here instead of where we come from...! If there's such a thing as God gene, it shouldn't be impossible either. At least we can save ourselves from abstract predictions. thoughts...? Interesting. Wonder if there’s any science that lets us into the other end - Where we go from here instead of where we come from…!

If there’s such a thing as God gene, it shouldn’t be impossible either. At least we can save ourselves from abstract predictions.

thoughts…?

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