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Europeans carry a motley mix of genes from at least three ancient sources: indigenous hunter-gatherers within Europe, people from the Middle East, and northwest Asians from near the Great Steppe of eastern Europe and central Asia.
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So....do you consider mulattoes a
"motley" mix as well, Ann? If not, why not?
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Willerslev says the data suggest the following scenario: After modern humans spread out of Africa about 60,000 years ago, they encountered Neandertals and interbred with them, perhaps in the Middle East. Then while one branch headed east toward Melanesia and Australia, another branch of this founder population (sometimes called “basal Eurasians”) spread north and west into Europe and central Asia.“There was a really large met-population that probably stretched all the way from the Middle East into Europe and into Eurasia,” Willerslev says.
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Let me see if I've got a proper understanding of this: modern humans hot-footed it out of 'Freaka & bred with the Neanderthals, then spread North, West & East over time. Then what does he mean by "
MET-population"?
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These people interbred at the edges of their separate populations, keeping the entire complex network interconnected—and so giving the ancient Kostenki man genes from three different groups. “In principle, you just have sex with your neighbor and they have it with their next neighbor—you don’t need to have these armies of people moving around to spread the genes.”
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Weren't there just the 2 human types - moderns & Neanderthals - living when they bred? Is he saying that after this initial interbreeding that the 3 hybrid branches developed their distinctive racial features over time, due to differing environmental pressures?
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Later, this large population was pushed back toward Europe as later waves of settlers, such as the ancestors of the Han Chinese, moved into eastern Asia. The Kostenki man does not share DNA with eastern Asians, who gave rise to Paleoindians in the Americas.
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So what accounts for the chinks? Who exactly did they spring from, if not the aforementioned?