Genetics of Deep History
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Genetics of Deep History
Touching briefly on “where the R1 Haplogroup came from” is helpful. All of the R Haplogroup migrated to Yamnaya from an area centered between the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan and the Altai mountains in Kazakhstan. It was here that the R group split off from the Q group sometime between 17,000-24,000 years ago. Today Q populations represent almost 100% of the Native American peoples, attesting to a close link between the Yamnaya and Native Americans. It’s not farfetched to call these people brothers. The combined population of R and Q were called P, and split off from the broader “K Haplogroup” that comprised both the N (all Siberian peoples), O (all East Asians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese, and much of the Islands) M (Melanesians and Polynesians), and S (Guinea peoples, Austronesians, Aboriginals) groups. There was also the related LT group rarely found today that split off from K.
While this seems unimportant, K itself was part of a broader group “IJK”, while the “IJ” composite branch comprising the nearly all modern “Semites” including Jews, Arabs, nearly the entire “Middle East” as well as at least half of Greeks and Turks, and large parts of Southern Italy. In this case, Semites are obviously the “Sons of Shem”, and we could potentially claim that IJ splitting from K is the point at which “Shem and Japheth” are first granted their own distinct cultural identities.
More interestingly, these populations all split from one another around the Tibetan mountain range and as previously mentioned the R and Q groups form their identity near the Altai mountains. Within, or quite near the Altai, are the “Alatau” mountains. Immediately evident for anyone familiar with the mountain Noah rested on is the name “Ararat” which is eerily similar to the name for these mountains which is more of a “generic term” rather than a specific mountain, or mountain range even. God choosing such a “generic” place seems just as fitting to me as the Ararat mountains near Mesopotamia, but I make no claim regarding either of these locations as the spot for Noah, and thus for his sons, first settling down
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