Genetic Bucket Chain, part 2
Channel: C0nc0rdance
Date: 30/09/2011

I know this is counter-intuitive.  All the really interesting science is.  If you have strong evidence to contradict the research on which these publications are based, by all means present it.

"I don't believe it" is not an adequate argument, though.

There may very well be some isolated populations, but to be truly isolated from the bucket chain, they would have to have no contact with any tribes who ever had contact with more distant tribes.  Isolated Pacific Islands seem the best candidate, but the Polynesians were island-hopping the Pacific in the 400s AD.


References:
http://www.stat.yale.edu/%7Ejtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureCommonAncestors-Article.pdf

http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/Ancestors.pdf