Comments on: How the Amhara breathe differently

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:40:43 +0000

i’m sorry, this comment thread is ridiculous. i’m closing it.

By: Zelalem

Zelalem — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:37:15 +0000

TPLF people are a disgrace for ethiopia. Even in foreign blogs they intiate ethnic conflict.
Normally, tigray women have a bigger forehead(genbaram).Liya is different. i don’t think she is from tigray. She is ethiopian, that is enough.

By: maq

maq — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:58:18 +0000

If you have done the studies on Ethiopian highlands then you must understand that there are also Tigrayans as part of the highlands. If you have taken samples only from Amara region then that explains. By the way the capital Addis Ababa, there are many ethnic group dwellers there not just Amaras. Those who win the greatest Marathons are also from central to Southern Ethiopia the Oromos. Most of the runners are Oromos who train at high altitutdes.

By: yosipop

yosipop — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:48:04 +0000

i think the women on the picture she is not typical habesha!

By: FIKRU

FIKRU — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:27:35 +0000

@ http: BefQadu: you are absolutely Wrong she is not Tigree she married one. She is Amhara get it right. Liya Kebede is her full name even her last name is a Typical Amhara name.

By: Dina

Dina — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:10:11 +0000

Liya Kebede is Amhara.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:59:09 +0000

The title is actually misleading as there are many ethnic groups in Ethiopia and the author just mentions one while showing a picture of a woman that is a member of a different group. Even what people call “Amhara” is actually a group of different ethnicity that share a common language. He should have just said “How the highland Ethiopians breathe differently”. Otherwise, Ethiopians reading this blog may believe the author to be bigoted.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:49:01 +0000

She is one of he world’s most highly paid model. I believe she is no more a typical Ethiopian than Cindy Crawford is a typical Chicagoan.

By: Zurga

Zurga — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:59:53 +0000

The women is a real native Amhara or Gurage or Agaw Women. These are the indigenous people of Ethiopia.
While the Self called Oromo pastoralists and the Tigrians whoes ancestors are Beja nomads are originally from the low land areas who migrated to the Ethiopian highland in search of water and pasture.

Zurga
the great
Son of Amon Raa

By: BefeQadu know your facts

BefeQadu know your facts — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:24:07 +0000

BefeQadu,

I doubt if you know Liya & her family at all, if you did, you would have known that she is NOT Tigray. Liya Kebede aka Lily who was actually my next door neighbour growing up in Bole Afrika Kinf aka Kebele 17 K 17 is NEVER Tigrian, rather Amhara. She is apparently married to a Tigray, not sure of that fact though. why on earth would you lie through your teeth? You want to claim anything and everything as Tigrian?

By: BefeQadu

BefeQadu — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:18:12 +0000

Chris and James: the woman pictured is Tigrian (her name is Liya, I know her because she is a notable person); but the Tigrians are also in the north highlands.

By: James

James — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:58:22 +0000

Chris, The woman pictured could be a typical Oromo or Tigrian or even Amhara but there is no doubt she is a typical Ethiopian cos Ethiopian highlands is not limited to Amhra region but rather extends all the way south to Bale mountains in Oromo region (that is where most elite Ethiopian athletes originate from) .

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:48:32 +0000

#6, yes.

By: Dwight E. Howell

Dwight E. Howell — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:46:20 +0000

The key question is did any intruders have to pick up local genes in order to last or not. Since anatomically modern humans seem to have appeared in Ethiopia as early as anywhere the adaptions could be hundreds of thousands of years old.

If the adaptions are fairly modern then the old adaptions could not have been all that vital.

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:28:34 +0000

Why is it that ethiopian/ Kenyan altitude-adapted people can use their adaptations to win long-distance running events, while andean/tibetans are not competative in these events?