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Chapter 4 Crucibles of Humanity
The last Chapter found that changing religious practices in the
Levant and Egypt are at the heart of the enigma of King Solomon’s
Temple. To unravel the mystery further, it is useful to review the broad
sweep of populations that carried different religious outlooks through the
region and to Europe and Britain. Modern advances in genetic mapping
have made this possible.
DNA loci in human genes now provide a rough evolutionary
profile. Nei and Roychourdhury completed a study of twenty-six human
population groups in 1993. The cluster diagram below shows their data,
as reprocessed by the author. 129
The dendrogram or phylogenetic tree shows the relationship
between population groups. The distance between various groups
provides an evolutionary time scale. It assumes a constant gene mutation
rate. Unfortunately this can also lead to some absurd results, such the
conclusion that South Asians and Polynesians developed long before the
Greater Asian Supercluster of the Tibetans, Japanese and Koreans, and
also long before the Caucasians groups such as the Germans, English,
Italians and Iranians.
A second major assumption in the phylogenetic map is that there
must be a distinct root race and an Eve, a single point start to humanity.
This assumption is incorrect. First, consider the age-old paradox of what
came first, the hen or the egg. Of course, the answer is an earlier kind of
hen. 130 Those of us that secretly harbour a romantic conception of Eve
might need to catch their breath because around 65 to 125 million years
ago, Eve was a rat-like creature called a Mus musculus. This Eve is not
only the ancestor of humans, but also the common ancestor of humans
and mice. 131
Cluster mathematics is a description technique, not a predictor. It
measures correlation and correlation does not mean causation. In fact, the
cluster diagram below shows Africa mathematically separated from the
remainder of the world. Of course, humans in Africa share the same
genes as humans elsewhere. There is simply more variance between
Africans and Asians than between Caucasians and Asians. To complicate
matters further, eighty-five percent of all variance occurs within
populations and only fifteen percent among populations. 132 This means
there is usually far greater genetic diversity between members of a
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