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For knowledge to be transferred from one group to another, all it takes is one person. For genetic markers to change it would need at least two, in good health
by rezashirazian 10y ago
For knowledge to be transferred from one group to another, all it takes is one person. For genetic markers to change it would need at least two, in good health and enough intermingling for it to be evident.
It's still not strong enough.
- aminok 10y agoOn the face of it seems highly unlikely to me that two groups had a level of contact that was enough for farming knowledge to be spread between them but not enough for genetic flow between them. Farming is not a simple technology. It's a way of life and encompasses a package of technologies. And the crops and animals raised in the respective origins could be raised in both locations so there's no obvious reason why diffusion of the farming knowledge would not be accompanied by the spread of those crops and animals.