Genetic origin of Somalis🇸🇴🇸🇴

Somalis, along with most of their fellow related Northeast African ethnicities like the Afar, Beja, and Oromo, are what early humans may have looked like, and that their unique and unordinary combination of aquiline features and dark skin is not a result of mixing or miscegenation of any sort. Rather to the contrary, Somalis are indeed very homogenous, not just culturally and phenotypically, but also genetically.

A Y-DNA marker is a genetic marker passed on from father to son in a continuous line, and thus is an excellent way to research and trace ones ancestry back many thousands of years. Men who share a single Y-DNA marker form what is called a "haplogroup". E1b1b most likely originated from a man living in the Horn of Africa. 

His descendants were most likely the ones behind the rise of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and from their hearth in Northeast Africa, they went north and west and east, spreading the expanse of the Afro-Asiatic languages, later giving rise to the Semitic and Egyptian languages in the Nile Delta/Middle East, and those that spread further west the Berber and Chadic languages. 

Those that stayed, however, developed into the Cushitic speaking group, and were the ancestors of the Somalis and Afars.

Somalis traditionally do not practice and usually look down upon miscegenation with non-Somalis, especially those they see as being very different from themselves, such as white Europeans, East Asians, Black Africans, and even similar Afro-Asiatic peoples. 

An important reason for this stems from the fact that Somali society revolves around clans or "paternal lineage groups", and that a Somali is defined as one who belongs to one of the 6 "noble" lineages, who in turn trace descent to the legendary founder, namesake, and patriarch of the Somali clans and nation, Samaale.