thegoodshepherd wrote:I'm not actually trolling. The age of E1b1b is around the same age as haplogroup T. E1b1b is mostly a North African- Eastern European haplogroup.
Its subclade EV-32 is mostly associated with cushitic populations. So the same goes for T, except that haplogroup T has not yet been well studied. I suspect that the subclade of T present in Somalis is also a marker of that sort.
This.
E-v32 is a distinctive Horner marker of the mostly North African E1b1b that's found from the former Yugoslavia to Morroco to Somalia.
I'm certain with more research, they'll find a Horn specific T marker. It seems quite certain that both haplogroups were introduced into the Horn at around the same time, carried by a migrating population from NE Africa to the Horn.
Still, this idea that because Somalis have two main haplogroups suddenly makes us a mixed population is hilarious when you compare us to any other ethnic group. We have 2 haplogroups that basically represent 95% of the male population, compared to "homogeneous" Japan that has 7 distinct haplogroups or Koreans with 6 or 7 different haplogroups.
Let's face it, we're probably one of the most overwhelmingly homogeneous people on the planet.
thegoodshepherd wrote:BTW, none of this disproves the Darood tradition of descent from an Arab sheikh.
