Dr. Christopher Ehret

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  Christopher Ehret of the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, compared genetic variation among people to variations in language.
  
  There are an estimated 2,000 distinct language groups in Africa broken into a few broad categories, often but not always following gene flow.
  
  Movement of a language usually involves arrival of new people, Ehret noted, bringing along their genes.
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  Ehret added that only about 20 percent of the Africans brought to North America made the trip directly, while most of the rest went first to the West Indies.
  
  And, he added, some local African American populations, such as the residents of the sea islands off Georgia and South Carolina, can trace their origins to specific regions such as Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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  Christopher Ehret of the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, compared genetic variation among people to variations in language.
  
  There are an estimated 2,000 distinct language groups in Africa broken into a few broad categories, often but not always following gene flow.
  
  Movement of a language usually involves arrival of new people, Ehret noted, bringing along their genes.
  ...
  Ehret added that only about 20 percent of the Africans brought to North America made the trip directly, while most of the rest went first to the West Indies.
  
  And, he added, some local African-American populations, such as the residents of the sea islands off Georgia and South Carolina, can trace their origins to specific regions such as Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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  The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer and Britain’s Daily Mail report today on a study co-authored by Christopher Ehret, UCLA professor of history, and scientists from Europe, Africa and the United States that analyzed the genetic variation and historical linguistics of Africa's San people, who are believed to be the oldest human population on Earth. The Associated Press reported on the study Thursday. Ehret was quoted in the coverage.

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  Pearson Prentice Hall Seminar Series in Global History "The Social History of Agricultural Invention," lecture by Chris Ehret, professor of African history at UCLA. Ehret is celebrated for work connecting archaeological and linguistic evidence in Africa. His books include An African Classical Age and The Civilizations of Africa. Alumnae Lounge, 4 p.m.

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  Christopher Ehret, of the department of history at the University of California's Los Angeles campus, compared genetic variation among people to variations in language.
  
  There are an estimated 2,000 distinct language groups in Africa broken into a few broad categories, often but not always following gene flow.
  
  Movement of a language usually involves arrival of new people, Ehret noted, bringing along their genes.
  ...
  Ehret added that only about 20 percent of the Africans brought to North America made the trip directly, while most of the rest went first to the West Indies.
  
  And, he added, some local African American populations, such as the residents of the sea islands off Georgia and South Carolina, can trace their origins to specific regions such as Sierra Leone and Guinea.

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  Christopher Ehret of the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, compared genetic variation among people to variations in language.
  
  There are an estimated 2,000 distinct language groups in Africa broken into a few broad categories, often but not always following gene flow.
  
  Movement of a language usually involves arrival of new people, Ehret noted, bringing along their genes.
  ...
  Ehret added that only about 20 percent of the Africans brought to North America made the trip directly, while most of the rest went first to the West Indies.
  
  And, he added, some local African-American populations, such as the residents of the sea islands off Georgia and South Carolina, can trace their origins to specific regions such as Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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  Christopher Ehret molecular biology

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  Christopher Ehret, an expert on African languages at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of Dr. Tishkoff's team, has detected traces of words borrowed from click languages in East African languages.
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  The language of the first modern humans may have undergone a very early branching, Dr. Ehret said, with the Khoisan click languages on one branch and the other three language groups of Africa - Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Kordofanian and Afroasiatic - on the other branch.

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  Both Nilo-Saharan speakers in Sudan and their Cushitic-speaking neighbors in the Red Sea hills probably domesticated cattle at the same time, since each has an independent vocabulary for cattle items, said Dr. Christopher Ehret, an expert on African languages and history at the University of California, Los Angeles.Descendants of each group moved southward and would have met again in Kenya, Dr. Ehret said.

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  "The spread of a language into a new area normally involves the spread of at least some speakers," says Christopher Ehret, a specialist in African history and linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of Tishkoff's team.

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  --Christopher Ehret, University of California at Los Angeles

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