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 with newer data from the paper i some of the yap insertion chromosomes without the m mutation reached the mediterranean via central asia and gave rise to the e lineage with mutations at m and m years ago hammer et al this e lineage back migrated to africa through the levant as hypothesized by hammer et al and altheide and hammer i chandrasekar i honestly have no interest in cherry picking quotes with you and scrutinizing the accuracy of claims that are otherwise clearly discernible