Comments on: The Cape Coloureds are a mix of everything

By: Deane

Deane — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:14:41 +0000

Matters are even more complicated: Many slaves came from Madagascar (ie of Afro-Javanese admixture).

By: Eze

Eze — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:49:00 +0000

The Cape Coloureds are quite possibly the most mixed population in the world.

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:30:55 +0000

#4, you’re right. too bad we don’t have cape malay data.

By: pconroy

pconroy — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:27:14 +0000

Strangely enough, I’m distantly related to a few Cape Coloreds – lastname Apolles – so they may have a little Irish in there too, or else it may be from my mother’s Huguenot ancestry?!

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:26:13 +0000

While Jewish ancestry or enslaved Arab progenitors could explain the “Yemeni” component, couldn’t it also have been present among the Malay founders? Weren’t Arab traders well established in the ‘East Indies’?

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:52:43 +0000

Why do so the San appear to have such a diverse array of admixture as well? Dutch, German, etc. admixture can account for the North European and West Asian components I suppose, but what about the seemingly East Asian and Indian components?

almost certainly some coloureds moved into the san community. this was especially true for coloured men who escaped to the “bush.” some of these men reputedly had family connections recollected through their materlineage.

By: Miley Cyrax

Miley Cyrax — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:45:26 +0000

“The slaves from South Asia were almost certainly much more diverse than the Gujarati_B population, which is mostly a group of Patels.”

Hahaha. How did the Patels achieve such domination of the Gujarati region, at least gleaned from their U.S. immigrants? It seems like every Gujarati I meet is named Patel.

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:21:31 +0000

note: i’ve been told that there may be jewish background here to explain the yemeni. one of the individuals has a lot of jewish matches on relative finder….