Insitome podcast: From Green Sahara to Bantu Farming spread Malaria and with it Sickle Cell Anemia

The oldest version of the sickle cell mutation is found in people from western and central Africa. They may have inherited it from an ancestor in the green Sahara.

The mutation might have spread to other parts of Africa with the expansion of a people called the Bantu. Arising about 5,000 years ago around what is now Cameroon and Nigeria, they converted woodlands to farm fields on a massive scale.

As they cleared land for agriculture, they may have promoted the spread of malaria by mosquitoes. The insects thrived by laying eggs in standing water around the farms and feeding on the growing population of farmers. The intensification of malaria in human populations may also have accelerated the spread of the protective sickle cell mutation.

yep

Another farming disease.

The Insight podcast by Spenser Wells, famed geneticist and grad student (post-doc?) Razib Khan

Where did we come from? One of humanity's most basic questions, the answer is fascinating. Weaving together insights from the fields of genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and paleoanthropology, hosts Spencer Wells and Razib Khan take us on a grand tour of human history. Scientific storytelling at its best.

Is anyone even listening to this? haha.

New episode on life before the end of the last Ice Age.....

So basically before humans reached Siberia they had already settled in Southeast Asia (Melanesia) - so before 40,000 years ago - when Sunderland existed - before the end of the last Ice Age - so a huge amount of land there.

Wow the Sumerians have legends that they came by Water from the East?

The oldest cities of Sumeria are from the South(east)....

So the hypothesis ---- Africa to Sunderland and then back into ASia and West Asia!!?!!

"The origin of anatomically modern humans"

The researcher says, "Quite a famous book."

HILARIOUS.  I've been a book worm for 20 years and I've never noticed that book.

Humans were in Sumatra 60,000 years ago....Australia 65,000 years ago - but went extinct.

Some humans were outside Africa over 100,000 years ago

Spenser Wells says over 1000 years the shift was 150 species for food to 8 species for food - documented - in northern Syria - due to the Younger Dryas causing a dramatically colder climate, such that people were forced to cross breed crops to intensify biomass of food as monocultural farming.....

Most modern diseases are plagues from animal diseases in farming cross-species into humans - small pox, measles, etc.

So the early cattle farmers of Europe only has 10% lactase levels - so could only digest Yogurt or cheese - but not milk. Milk tolerance is only from 4,000 BCE on.

Bronze Age Nomads DID spread as males with chariots into India - into West of China (Tarim Basim) - and into Europe.... all around 2000 BCE....