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Who are Greeks genetically closer to?
However, the data from the international team of scientists found a startling exception: mainland Greeks, who seem to be genetically closer to Albanians than to their brethren in the Greek islands.
Why is Sub-Saharan Africa considered a region?
Sub-Saharan Africa forms its own climatic zone, which is ecologically, culturally, and ethnically separated from northern Africa by the Sahara and the Sahel. For this reason, supra-regional languages – such as Kiswahili in East Africa – were developed early on and are still spoken today.
Which best describes Sub-Saharan Africa?
Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. According to the United Nations, it consists of all African countries and territories that are fully or partially south of the Sahara.
Is there a sub-Saharan African origin for Greeks?
Abstract: Arnaiz-Villena et al.published five papers making the claim of a Sub-Saharan African origin for Greeks. Hajjej et al.essentially published copies of Arnaiz-Villena’s studies using the same methods, and data sets.
Are the ancient Greeks of Crete genetically related to Africans?
Greeks do not belong to the “older” Mediterranean peoples, and are genetically related more to Sub-Saharan (Ethiopian and western African) people. Arnaiz-Villena offers a historical hypothesis that some Sub-Saharans had migrated to Greece during antiquity, but not to Crete.
Vardar Slavs show the closest genetic relatedness with Cretan Greeks, and are closely related to other Mediterraneans but not to mainland Greeks, who are geographically closer. Greeks do not belong to the “older” Mediterranean peoples, and are genetically related more to Sub-Saharan (Ethiopian and western African) people.
Is the Middle East more genetically distant from Africa than Africa?
It would stand to reason then that the further you are from Africa, the more genetically distant you are. Simply because of recent admixture of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in much of the Middle East there is some truth to this, but I think it misses the “big picture.”