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Not sure how close they are to the Bantu, but they'll be separate from us regardless.
None of the African tribes have any Neanderthal admixture (while we all do; last common ancestor ~250,000+ years), and all of them have admixture from ancient hominids like Homo Erectus (while none of us have any... we used to think they were an extinct branch until recently; last common ancestor 1,500,000+ years). That's why they are so far removed from us in PCA graphs (which is what you see in the OP).
Not sure how close they are to the Bantu, but they'll be separate from us regardless.
None of the African tribes have any Neanderthal admixture (while we all do; last common ancestor ~250,000+ years), and all of them have admixture from ancient hominids like Homo Erectus (while none of us have any... we used to think they were an extinct branch until recently; last common ancestor 1,500,000+ years). That's why they are so far removed from us in PCA graphs (which is what you see in the OP).
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