As would be expected with the "out of Africa" theory, the researchers found Africans had the greatest amount of genetic diversity, followed in turn by Middle Easterners, then Europeans and South Asians at about equal levels, then East Asians.
Native Americans had the least genetic diversity of all, indicating that part of the world was settled last.
Instead of diversity, we should be talking about absurdity here. I don`t care about the findings of this research. They can talk about "harmful" things in our DNA related to some sort of "genetic bottleneck" all they want, but, if you ask me, it helped weed out African influenceto the greatest extentpossible. It`s what made us white and proud and made Asians what they are, Native Americansetc. Do they think there is somethingabout Africa and its peoples that we should be envious of? Look at what we have done in Eurasia and the Americasoverthe past 10,000 years and compare it to Africa.Look over here inAsia where I am.I have a helluva a lot more respect for this continent too than I do for anything from the Dark Continent.
Whatever could have been responsiblefor the so-called bottleneck about 30,000 years ago anyway? Strangely those Neanderthal died out completely around the same time-if the experts are to believed.So our ancestors were hardy enough and clever enough to survive whatever environmental changes were going on, but the Neanderthal couldn`t, the incredibly robust ones, if the experts are to be believed.
Africa-there is a reason it ismissing from the world map on another recent thread.
Thank God I`m white.