Modern-day Middle Easterners are NOT the original inhabitants of Middle east ?? How it's POSSIBLE?

**~~cally~~** · 02-12-2014, 06:26 PM

I think this study is propaganda

**StonyArabia** · 02-12-2014, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by callmyname

I think this study is propaganda

It actually is, and it does not deal with the Middle East, but rather the Levant and is attacking Muslim Levantines.

**Gaston** · 02-12-2014, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by callmyname

I think this study is propaganda

No, it's just that scientists are usually lazy and don't go further in their investigations.

What they missed here is some Bedouins are actually a much better proxy for the Eurasian ancestry of South African natives than Sardinians. They didn't even bother to take North Africans into account.

**Dál Riata** · 02-21-2014, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by chwarae

It's old news for the very few people here who have been following population genetics for years.

Modern Middle Eastern people have the West Asian component which was absent in the Middle East (and Europe) until very recently (well after the Neolithic revolution). That's why the West Eurasian ancestors of South African hunter-gatherer seem to match better some Southern Europeans rather modern Near Easterners.

Where did the West Asian component then if not the Middle East which is after all, the Western part of Asia? Was it restricted to the Caucasus or did it result from admixture itself involving other influences such as North European or Central/East Asian?

**Gaston** · 02-21-2014, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Dál Riata

Where did the West Asian component then if not the Middle East which is after all, the Western part of Asia? Was it restricted to the Caucasus or did it result from admixture itself involving other influences such as North European or Central/East Asian?

The latter. West Asian is probably some native Near Eastern with recent ANE (Ancient North Eurasian) admixture and maybe smaller amounts of South/East Asian too.