From a scientific point of view, perhaps the only people you could consider to be non-immigrants would be some Khoe-San speaking groups in southern Africa, as explained Austin Reynolds, assistant professor of anthropology at Baylor University in Texas specializing in Human Population Genetics.
The designation Khoe-San refers to certain African communities in the areas of Botswana, Namibia, Angola and South Africa who speak similar languages with distinctive consonants.
Last genetically Aboriginal people
Joisan, Khoisan or Khoisanid are terms that define an important African population group in a cultural, ethnic, linguistic and racial sense; It comes from the union of Khoi (Khoikhoi) and San, main groups that speak one of the Joisan languages, characterized by incorporating clicking or clicking sounds.
There are two main factors that indicate that the Khoe-San groups they may be non-migratory descendants of the original humans: They live where humans likely first appeared and have a large amount of genetic diversity.
This happens because some types of genomes came from this place, but there were more in the original site.
However, despite the Khoe-San groups' proximity to the proverbial 'cradle of humanity' and their significant genetic diversity, identifying them as the last genetically aboriginal peoples is not easy.
First of all, researchers are not sure that southern Africa is the cradle of humanity. Some scientists think that humans first evolved in East Africa.
Other researchers do not believe there are any people left on Earth who are not, at least scientifically, immigrants. That is all human populations have been in contact with other, including the Khoe-San.
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Scientifically speaking, the only people who are not immigrants are some Khoe-San in southern Africa
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