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There's no such thing as a single "African" cluster There's a large cluster (with, of course, lots of subclusters) that includes almost all sub-Saharan African
by lexcorvus 11y ago
There's no such thing as a single "African" cluster
There's a large cluster (with, of course, lots of subclusters) that includes almost all sub-Saharan Africans—basically, everyone except Khoisan (Bushmen) and Pygmies. As Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza puts it: "differences between most sub-Saharan Africans other than Khoisan and Pygmies seem rather small." Even then, the African supercluster is still distinct from Europeans, and indeed from everyone else. Cavalli-Sforza again:
The most important difference in the human gene pool is clearly that between Africans and non-Africans
For more on this important subject, I recommend these two short articles:
http://www.vdare.com/articles/052400-cavalli-sforzas-ink-cloud http://www.vdare.com/articles/052400-cavalli-sforzas-ink-clo...
http://www.vdare.com/articles/053100-cavalli-sforza-ii-and-seven-dumb-ideas-about-race http://www.vdare.com/articles/053100-cavalli-sforza-ii-and-s...