Charlie
I never said East Africans are completely pure, no one is pure racially or genetically. The east African soma-type is not due to mixing, its due to variation and adaptation. Your statement that Ethiopians are mixed with Bantus and Dinka is simply untrue, there is no historical evidence to confirm this.
You said that the way East AFricans look is due to "adaption".
First of all, you speak of the East African soma-type as if there is only one. But with in East AFrica itself, there are great physcial differences between various tribes regardless of adaption and environment.
Not only is there a physical difference but a cultural one as well.
The Amharic speaking peoples of Ethiopia who maintain a Jewish and Christian heritage look nothing like the tall mountainous tribes who practice ancestor worship and dress less modestly.
Why the difference if they both come from the same area?
The thin nosed, wavey haird "Bilees" of Somalia don't look like the wider-nosed, shorter, and kinky-headed Bantu they've been sharing the same land with for thousands of years.
So where is the evidence of adaption?
I never said East Africans are completely pure, no one is pure racially or genetically. The east African soma-type is not due to mixing, its due to variation and adaptation. Your statement that Ethiopians are mixed with Bantus and Dinka is simply untrue, there is no historical evidence to confirm this.
You said that the way East AFricans look is due to "adaption".
First of all, you speak of the East African soma-type as if there is only one. But with in East AFrica itself, there are great physcial differences between various tribes regardless of adaption and environment.
Not only is there a physical difference but a cultural one as well.
The Amharic speaking peoples of Ethiopia who maintain a Jewish and Christian heritage look nothing like the tall mountainous tribes who practice ancestor worship and dress less modestly.
Why the difference if they both come from the same area?
The thin nosed, wavey haird "Bilees" of Somalia don't look like the wider-nosed, shorter, and kinky-headed Bantu they've been sharing the same land with for thousands of years.
So where is the evidence of adaption?