Posted: Aug 19, 2011 12:29 am
by Biowatch
But as I said before with references there were far mor recent mixing between African and Non-African populations.


Yes, that is mentioned by Risch in his paper I cited earlier. It doesn't prevent categorization of groups into continental clusters that reflect their ancestral background.

By contrast, Pacific Islanders are those with indigenous ancestry from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia and Micronesia, as well as other Pacific Island groups further east. Native Americans are those that have indigenous ancestry in North and South America. Populations that exist at the boundaries of these continental divisions are sometimes the most difficult to categorize simply. For example, east African groups, such as Ethiopians and Somalis, have great genetic resemblance to Caucasians and are clearly intermediate between sub-Saharan Africans and Caucasians [5]. The existence of such intermediate groups should not, however, overshadow the fact that the greatest genetic structure that exists in the human population occurs at the racial level.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139378/