African Haplogroup E and to say that he doesn t ascribe to D E an African origin is very disingenuous when the quote clearly states this more than implies it And for the last time Chandrasekar does cite Hammer to support his conclusions who only undermines him in 2008 with newer data From the paper i Some of the YAP insertion chromosomes without the M174 mutation reached the Mediterranean via Central Asia and gave rise to the E lineage with mutations at M40 and M96 31 000 years ago Hammer et al 1998 This E lineage back migrated to Africa through the Levant as hypothesized by Hammer et al 1997 and Altheide and Hammer 1997 i Chandrasekar 2007 I honestly have no interest in cherry picking quotes with you and scrutinizing the accuracy of claims that are otherwise clearly discernible