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If you need a clear example of a geographic barrier to gene flow, here it is. R1b frequency in the Balkans. Notice that there's something preventing gene flow in Bosna and Dalmatian coast. 1) Geographic barriers prevent gene flow. 2) To the west we have the Adriatic, to the east we have the...

That's not evidence, it's speculation, hypothesis and i believe it's totally bogus. The 2500 year age of the clade is also speculation, based on models, which are more often than not, again, bogus. It's just not plausible to believe that the low frequency gradient, and the vast area that I2a2...

If you understand biological evolution you understand that there is no "special case for geographic isolation." Geographic isolation leads to disruption of gene flow. It is a large claim to suggest that I2a-Dinaric arrived in first millennium AD. It's even a larger claim because there is no...

Saying Illyrians weren't I2a2 is based on fantasy and delusion. There's no evidence to support this hypothesis and most biological evolutionary evidence seems to support a different hypothesis, that Illyrians from Montenegro, and north, were primarily I2a2. I really don't understand how people...

Yeah if you look at the study, eye size is definitively correlated with latitude, but brain size really isn't. Brain sized shows a peak sample at 37 degrees latitude. It does show a trend from smaller brains to bigger going into higher latitudes, but most Europeans 35 degrees or higher...

It's simply impossible to answer the question of the prime mover. It is the only question that can bring someone to god. Infinite cause and effect is a human concept applied to human reason. The same can be said of god, an infinite being. If you answer the question of how something can exist...

This is an astute observation and I believe a correct one. With atheism came a sense of intellectualism and a growing disdain for past culture. Culture that has lasted thousands of years and has been curated to sustain the hardships of existence. No longer is man supposed to feel one with his...

How does atheism benefit you? To me, atheism is so shallow that it's hard for me to understand what is compelling about it. As a child i became an atheist, because it sounded right when it fulfilled an answered question that daunted me. Who created god if god created us? But the question is...

Atheism is the dead end of imagination. It's pretty disturbing that people find atheism compelling to explain our existence when the prime mover issue, ie. what was the first cause, Aristotles observation still exists. Atheism isn't an intellectual belief. Intelligence, reason, logic, or...

Actually there's 2.5% H1 in Tosk and .6% H1 in Gheg, which are the non gypsy Albanian populations. Which does show some breeding took place between Albanians and gypsies, albeit, very little. One should not assume there is no gene flow from gypsies to Albanians, when the evidence indicates...

Is the frequency of Y-dna H1 high in Albanians? That's really odd, if true. This haplogroup is also very high in balkan gypsies as well as south asian populations. Edit: Apparently the tribes, per the link provided above, to albanian H1 are primarily gypsy tribes in Albania. Apparently a...

Listen my Srb friend. Go look at any map and tell me that Dalmatia and Hercegovina are not geographically isolated. This is pure nonsense. A country that isn't geographically isolate is Serbia. I'm really not sure whether or not to take that statement seriously. Do you know what geographic...

Sepharid Jews or "Spanish" Jews are well known to carry E1b1b and would explain why the Iberian peninsula shows high percentages of this haplogroup. It's not science fiction. It's a well known marker of Jews and would explain the high prevalence in Portugal, where the slave trade occurred and...

The fact that E1b1b is as rare in Hercegovina as it is in Austria or other parts of northern Europe. That R1b is largely absent, as is R1a shows that there was very little gene flow from Southern Balkans to Central Balkans and Western Europe to Central Balkans. I don't know why we're still...

Ötzi was G2a4.