Re: The taxonomy of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from a craniometric perspective

On 8/4/24 8:48 PM, Mario Petrinovic wrote:

On 4.8.2024. 20:50, John Harshman wrote:

Don't be shy. Just say what you mean. Preferably in a single post.

          While we are at that, I will not be shy and I will ask you a question I always wanted to clear it up.
         You have two situations. In Africa you have a lot of separated small tribes, so high genetic diversity. In India you have all humans connected in one big society, so genes exchange among the whole population, and they average over time, so we have low genetic diversity. Now, the question is, in the view of geneticists is India the bottleneck?

If you just waited a while before posting and thought more about what you wanted to say, you wouldn't have this problem. Consider that.
Meanwhile, I don't understand the question. India is not a bottleneck. What bottleneck? And you misunderstand the nature of African genetic diversity. Most of it is within populations, not between them. Africa has much higher within-population diversity than does the rest of the world.