Primitive African DNA may have influenced the murderer to act asserts top anthropologist
The murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a Charlotte light rail train has ignited a national firestorm. It has left some social influencers to ask: Is primitive African DNA partly to blame?
What began as a local tragedy has now escalated into a federal controversy, with political figures and cultural commentators weighing in on its deeper implications.
Last night, a North Carolina Congressman presented the case on the House floor, signaling its elevation to a matter of federal concern. FBI Director Kash Patel and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy—also a former Fox News contributor—have both publicly weighed in, confirming that the incident is under federal investigation and carries national significance.
The mainstream media sat on the story for nearly two weeks. Top X (Twitter) influencers, Ian Miles Cheong, Jack Posobiec and Benny Johnson pressed the issue. Soon thereafter, the video went viral. Two days later much of the media were forced to run stories on the murder. Most focused in on how Republicans and MAGA are using the murder to push a specific narrative.
From Fox News via MSN,
Patel and Duffy signal Charlotte train murder under federal investigation with national implications
Duffy’s announcement is tied directly to a recent message from President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” message regarding crime.
Trump says Democrats have “Blood on their Hands”
“If mayors can’t keep their trains and buses safe, they don’t deserve the taxpayers’ money,” Duffy said in a statement. “@USDOT will be investigating Charlotte over its failure to protect Iryna Zarutska. And we will also be looking at other crime-ridden cities across the country.”
Zarutska, who fled the war in Ukraine seeking safety in the United States, was fatally stabbed in what police described as a random and unprovoked attack. The suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., has a long criminal history and was released unsupervised despite prior signs of instability. The irony of her journey—from Kyiv to Charlotte—has not been lost on the public, and the emotional weight of the case continues to grow.
Alt-Right Anthropology maven Robert Sepehr Responds: A Genetic Lens on Tragedy
Among the voices responding to the murder is anthropologist and YouTube creator Robert Sepehr, whose post on X (formerly Twitter) has stirred both support and controversy.
Robert Sepehr holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Sepehr is prolific and influential online, his interpretations—especially on archaic admixture and racial genetics—are considered controversial and speculative by many in the academic community. He regularly gains 100s of 1000s of views to his YouTube channel for Alt-Right Anthropology. One of his videos has 1.2 million views.
Sepehr was replying to a viral tweet by Stefan Molyneux that garnered over 19,000 views, framing the murder as a symptom of deeper biological and behavioral realities. Sepehr specifically cites primitive African DNA as a contributing factor.
Sepehr wrote:
“DNA influences behavior, IQ, and impulse control. Sub-Saharan Africans have up to 19% genetic admixture from an archaic species not found in Asian or Caucasian DNA. Race is a biological reality, genetically and behaviorally.”
This statement, while provocative, is rooted in peer-reviewed science—specifically the 2019 study by Sriram Sankararaman and Arun Durvasula published in PLoS Genetics. Their research introduced a statistical model for detecting archaic DNA segments without relying on reference genomes. The findings were groundbreaking: West African populations carry between 2–19% genetic admixture from a previously unknown archaic hominin, one that diverged before Neanderthals and Denisovans.
The Science Behind the Claim
The Sankararaman/Durvasula study has become a cornerstone in discussions of human variation and behavioral genetics. It suggests that modern Sub-Saharan African populations inherited genetic material from an archaic species that interbred with Homo sapiens tens of thousands of years ago. This admixture is absent in Asian and European populations, making it a unique genetic signature.
While the identity of this archaic hominin remains uncertain, paleoanthropologists have proposed several candidates:
- Homo ergaster: An early African hominin with traits intermediate between Homo habilis and Homo erectus.
- Australopithecine species: Some researchers suggest admixture from late-surviving Australopithecines, though this remains speculative.
- Homo naledi: Paleoanthropologists Lee Berger and John Hawks have hinted that Naledi, with its mosaic of primitive and advanced traits, could be a viable candidate.
These possibilities open a complex and often uncomfortable dialogue about how ancient genetics may influence modern behavior—not in deterministic terms, but in probabilistic ones. Sepehr’s invocation of this study is not a call to racial essentialism, but a challenge to the orthodoxy that denies biological variation as a factor in societal outcomes.
Robert Sepehr has backing from a top Geneticist for his claim
Shi Huang
Dr. Shi Huang is a geneticist with a degree from the University of California-Davis. Dr. Huang has a highly controversial Twitter account. But he often cites reputable sources for his views. Dr. Huang was also a guest on the Jolly Heretic – Edward Dutton YouTube podcast in 2023. (Dutton is a friend of this site.)
Huang, subspecieist, February 2024,
African gene alleles more Chimpanzee like says controversial geneticist Dr. Shi Huang
“That Africans carry more ancestral alleles (=archaic or apes) has been well demonstrated by the rooting of phylogenetic trees in Africa for both autosomes and uniparental DNAs by using the outgroup rooting method. Biological significance of this? Eerie silence…”
A Collision of Tragedy and Deep Time
As Charlotte becomes the epicenter of a national reckoning, anthropology steps forward—not to deflect, but to clarify. The Sankararaman/Durvasula study confirms what Robert Sepehr has long argued: genetic admixture influences behavior, cognition, and impulse control. This isn’t ideology—it’s data. And in the wake of Iryna Zarutska’s murder, that data demands attention.
This isn’t just a murder—it’s a moment where deep time collides with modern chaos. The archive responds.
Note – More context in our video of the ongoing battle between Robert Sepehr and paleoanthropology Youtube celebrity Erika, Gutsick Gibbon.
This article is deeply unsettling. The tragic murder of Iryna Zarutska is horrific, but twisting it into a divisive, genetic argument is disturbing. Its a painful reminder of how dangerous political agendas can exploit tragedy.
Sorry you feel that way. But the left has been using horrific crimes to advance their political agenda for decades. About time conservatives and libertarians do the same.
This article is deeply disturbing and unsettling. The way media and certain figures are exploiting a tragic murder for political gain is appalling. Sepehrs comments, while allegedly based on science, are grossly insensitive and dangerous. The focus should be on justice, not harmful stereotypes.
Stereotypes matter. Stereotypes are truth. Stereotypes stem from immutable characteristics. To deny stereotypes is to deny human evolution itself.
Telling the truth is racist?
You have a social and political responsibility to lie about the sub-Human nature of niggers?
The leftist and religious hypocrites are stupid and want you to be hypocritical and stupid too!