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Xavier_Onassis » 09 Jun 2022, 10:26 am » wrote: ↑

09 Jun 2022, 10:26 am

It is originally a linguistic term used incorrectly by the apartheid government of South Africa to refer to people entirely descended from native Africans. 

There is more ethnic diversity in Africa than on any other continent.

Well, that would dovetail with Stephen Oppenheimer's research.  Oppenheimer theorized that based on mitochondrial DNA approximately 85 thousand years ago, a group of modern humans migrated from East Africa across the Red Sea to South Asia in a single major exodus numbering no more than a few hundred individuals. This lone group of wanderers, he suggests, were the ancestors of all the peoples of the earth except sub-Saharan Africans.