“A common Indo-European mythologem told of the creation of the world from the sacrifice of a primordial androgyne ... There is the figure of Manu whose name is derived from Proto-Indo-European *manu-, "man" (as in English 𝑚𝑎𝑛)...who is described as the first man." — B. Lincoln “In Rome, similar historicizing of the myth took place, yet our mythic scenario of the sacrifice of one primal twin by the other is discernible nonetheless in the story of Romulus and Remus.” — Bruce Lincoln

"Ziryāb (789-852), a black "mawlā" of the Abbasids...brought profound changes to the customs of the court ... The "ma'lūf" which is still in fashion in the Maghrib today, and Spanish flamenco are remotely descended from the revolution brought about in music by Ziryāb." — M. Talbi

https://twitter.com/dusttodigital/status/1608526334032236544

"The distinctive and rich civilization that characterized the Muslim world...inherited not only the material and intellectual achievements of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean world but also...many elements of Indian and Chinese origin and transmitted them further." — Ivan Hrbek

"Any attempt at reconstructing the possible pigmentation of hominids must first examine the closest living relatives—the African great apes. If the gorilla and chimpanzee were shaved of all their hair, the skin underneath would appear light in complexion." — Dr. Rick Kittles

https://twitter.com/sordid_nordic/status/1576928671465545728

"In addition to red hair and lighter skin pigmentation, derived alleles at 𝘔𝘊1𝘙 are also associated with freckles, increased nevus count, and an increased risk of melanoma." — Ellen E. Quillen (@EllenEQuillen)

https://x.com/TRPL__DRKNSS/status/1585633385338527745?s=20&t=zCRcYi8h1cete4Hwn3oCTg

“The American South was disproportionately settled by people from the Northern ends of the British Isles.” — Robert Sapolsky

https://twitter.com/sordid_nordic/status/1585302102875594752

"Some historians will tell you if you look at the Confederate flag from the Civil War‚ it's very similar to the St. Andrew's in terms of design." — Anon.

"Haplogroups E and D are brother haplogroups. While haplogroup E was carried westwards to Africa by the tall black people, haplogroup D might have been carried eastwards to East Asia by the short black people." — Chuan-Chao Wang

https://twitter.com/sordid_nordic/status/1585632285604577281

"Oceania was occupied first from Africa, more or less at the same time as East Asia (both probably having been settled by the coastal route of South Asia), and then from East Asia both Europe and America were settled." — L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza

anatolian hunter-gatherers:

https://twitter.com/sordid_nordic/status/1578764365741887488

“Populations of the Near East & Europe show the presence of young subclades of haplogroup E which likely reflect recent gene flow from Africa within the last 25‚000 years…haplogroup E was characteristic of the Natufians, pre-pottery farmers of Levant & Ethiopians” — T. Kivisild

"A closer affinity has been detected of the wealthy Nubian A-Group to elite Egyptians than elite Egyptians were to other Egyptians." — K. Godde

https://twitter.com/TRPL__DRKNSS/status/1576347267292094464

"Notable frequencies of B-M60 were found in Hausa (15.6%) and Copts (15.2%)...This might be a relic of a history of colonization of southern Egypt probably by Nilotics in the early state formation, something that conforms both to history and Egyptian mythology." — Hisham Hassan

"Here we report fossil hairs...that were discovered in a hyaena coprolite from the Gladysvale cave fossil site in South Africa...dated to the Middle Pleistocene (195‚000–257‚000 years ago)....we attribute the fossil hair specimens to Homo sapiens." — Lucinda Backwell "In cross-section the hairs are generally oval or concavo convex, a feature shared with modern humans. They had an average diameter of 82 by 56 mm, which falls comfortably within the range of humans and other higher primates...human hair is the closest match." — Lucinda Backwell

"Lake Mega Chad had its largest extent between
5‚500–4‚950 BCE, when the lake’s surface area measured approximately 361,000 km2. The lake was
therefore equivalent in surface area to the Caspian Sea, in surface area the largest lake that exists on earth today." — Thomas Schneider "The first three hours of the Egyptian Book of the Underworld—Amduat—were inspired by the palaeoecological environment of the Western Desert of Egypt and northeastern Chad in the early 2nd millennium BCE." — Thomas Schneider

"Nothing, of course, ever begins when you think it does." — Lillian Hellman “Much of evolution does not consist in the invention of new structures‚ new inventions‚ it comes down to using old inventions in new ways. ” — Neil Shubin

"Mankind thinks he is creating the objects‚ but the objects live much longer than we do...not only that‚ objects even create ourselves. If we think of Ancient Egypt‚ even mathematics would've not been possible without developing writing‚ papyrus and ostraca."— Christian Greco "Near Medina [Southern Egypt]‚ the literacy rate was higher than the rest of Egypt." — Willemina Zwanida Wendrich

"Capital was kick-started by the rape of the African continent ... the gratuitous terror of white supremacy is as much contingent upon the irrationality of white fantasies and shared pleasures as it is upon a logic — the logic of capital..." — Frank Wilderson III "The opposite of Black is Human ... I don't think that anyone can show me 'Blackness' as a formation prior to the global consensus by the Arabs, the Iranians, the Chinese, the Jews of Morroco—prior to the consensus that Africa is a place of slaves." — Frank Wilderson III