reply to post by leejohnbarnes
No, it's a misrepresentation. Every single Haplotype originates in Africa...
The fossil record and genetic evidence indicate that all humans today are descended from anatomically modern ancestors who lived in Africa about
150,000 years ago. Because we are a relatively young species, most of the variation in any current human population comes from the variation present
in the ancestral human population. Also, as humans migrated out of Africa, they carried with them part but not all of the genetic variation that
existed in the ancestral population. As a result, the haplotypes seen outside Africa tend to be subsets of the haplotypes inside Africa. In addition,
haplotypes in non-African populations tend to be longer than in African populations, because populations in Africa have been larger through much of
our history and recombination has had more time there to break up haplotypes.
Subsets of Haplotypes (in this case, subset 1b) are variations of the original haplotypes. For Europeans we took only a few strands of Haplotypes
with us when we migrated out, through indreeding certain haplogroups began emerging, creating these subset Haplotypes that indicates Eurasian
populations. Tough it's also important to know that no Haplogroup originates inside Europe, it's almost always in the Middle East. Asian
populations were the exact same way. Though different groups spread further and became more issolated, the inbreeding helped define with distinction
certain genetic characteristics. Hair color, skin color, height, eye shape, hair texture and various other traits were altered by environment and
breeding. But because of the absence of variety they became more pronounced.
Technically speaking Africans have a larger genetic pool than any other race, because they carry most of the root haplotypes that define modern
Humans.
But in short, the article is a bunch of BS because there is no pure European or Asian haplotype.