Modern day Cypriots have closer genetic links with Jews, Arabs and Anatolians rather than with Europeans, a 2013 scientific study reported.
An international team of 14 geneticists published their extensive research in a Public Library of Science (PLOS) journal
on February 28th this year. The results reveal a Levantine racial structure not
previously reported in the international scientific world.
Cypriots fall into the genetic group called West Asia. Closest to the Cypriot gene pool are Armenians, Syrians, Lebanese, Druzes (Arabs), Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Saudi Arabians and Jordanians. Followed by Georgians, Iranians (Persians) and Turks. See the pink bar on the chart below - click on the image to enlarge.
A common ancestry matrix from the same article shows the genetic links between Cypriots and North and East Africans, Middle Easterners and West Asians. The highest concentrations of pink show the most common ancestry.
The map below shows gene distribution by geographical area. Cypriot genes, in the bar on the left, are mostly 'blue' with a bit of 'green'. While
there are faint blue areas in western Europe, Egypt, and north-west Africa, the
highest concentration of the ‘blue’ gene type is found in the Jewish and Arab regions, extending into the South Caucasus and Asia Minor. The highest concentrations of the 'green' gene are in north and east Africa and the southern Arabian peninsula.
The first undisputed human settlement of Cyprus dates to the Neolithic period, 9th or 10th millennium BC. Water wells discovered by archaeologists in west Cyprus are believed to be among the oldest of the world, approximately 9,000-10,500 years old, putting the earliest inhabitants of Cyprus in the Stone Age.
The earliest known stone tools have been excavated in what is now Ethiopia, i.e. East Africa is where man is thought to have first developed before multiplying and migrating, taking stone technology with him. Human skin colour changed over the millennia according to the degree of exposure to UV light from the sun.
The most widely accepted evolutionary theory of the origins of anatomically modern humans is the Out of Africa theory. This is supported by the PLOS scientists, who say:
Genetic and archaeological studies present solid evidence placing the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula as the first stepping stone outside Africa.
In other words, we are all children of Africa.
The teachings of the Catholic Church are not incompatible with evolutionary theory. Pope Benedict XVI defended the concept of Theistic Evolution in the book, Creation and Evolution: A Conference with Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo, Stephan Horn (Ed.), San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008.
And God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Book of Genesis 1:31 (D-R)
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Cypriots fall into the genetic group called West Asia. Closest to the Cypriot gene pool are Armenians, Syrians, Lebanese, Druzes (Arabs), Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Saudi Arabians and Jordanians. Followed by Georgians, Iranians (Persians) and Turks. See the pink bar on the chart below - click on the image to enlarge.
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| Cypriot genes: not in the European group |
A common ancestry matrix from the same article shows the genetic links between Cypriots and North and East Africans, Middle Easterners and West Asians. The highest concentrations of pink show the most common ancestry.
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| Cypriots descend from the NE African, Middle Eastern and Anatolian gene pools |
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| Cypriots originate from the highlighted regions N.B. There is no blue or green shading in the area that is now modern Greece |
The first undisputed human settlement of Cyprus dates to the Neolithic period, 9th or 10th millennium BC. Water wells discovered by archaeologists in west Cyprus are believed to be among the oldest of the world, approximately 9,000-10,500 years old, putting the earliest inhabitants of Cyprus in the Stone Age.
The earliest known stone tools have been excavated in what is now Ethiopia, i.e. East Africa is where man is thought to have first developed before multiplying and migrating, taking stone technology with him. Human skin colour changed over the millennia according to the degree of exposure to UV light from the sun.
The most widely accepted evolutionary theory of the origins of anatomically modern humans is the Out of Africa theory. This is supported by the PLOS scientists, who say:
Genetic and archaeological studies present solid evidence placing the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula as the first stepping stone outside Africa.
In other words, we are all children of Africa.
The teachings of the Catholic Church are not incompatible with evolutionary theory. Pope Benedict XVI defended the concept of Theistic Evolution in the book, Creation and Evolution: A Conference with Pope Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo, Stephan Horn (Ed.), San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008.
And God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Book of Genesis 1:31 (D-R)
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