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It is well known that Stalin decided what went into Soviet history books based upon what he wanted the population to think in the future. One subject Stalin hated was genetics, and he did not like it being researched in the Soviet Union. He didn't like the study of languages either. Economics...

I am quite sure there was a massive migration of English up into Scotland at one point, which would have been after the influence of Denmark and the Anglo Saxons, into the Lowlands. There was also a large amount of migration between Flanders and Netherlands for the weaving industry. There is a...

The people in these picture are an illustration of what I mean, you can't tell their ethnic group just by looking. http://blog.radissonblu.com/scandinavian-style-and-shopping-in-stockholm/

I am not saying the Chinese can't see the hair colour, it just doesn't mean something to them. They'd never been to Turkey or Albania so they don't know how these people look. Sweden is a very contrary country, so you shouldn't be surprised. In fact, Turkish, Albanians and others are so...

Yes, one geographical country has tribes which we assume are only separated by a few thousand years of presumably the same Y chromosome, that do completely different things. It must have been similar to this in Europe.

There doesn't have to be a positive choice of features. Imagine you are considered ugly in a tribe, the only other person who will go with you may also be ugly. What if at one point the features of caucasoids and asians in a single tribe caused them to split. Perhaps they didn't like each other...

It is really interesting. The Goths from Gotland had been linked to the megoliths in Europe (or claimed affinity). Now we see how they were rather uncontained to the island if this was the case. Furthermore, the Ustase Croats claimed descendence from the Goths, which didn't make sense as I2 was...

Also I haven't seen a single person in Hungary who looks asian apart from asians. Hungarians to me look a more different than English or Danish people look to each other. There are certain looks that are quite common. The kind of Italian look, the Serbian look, the slavic look and the German...

I lived in Sweden and I have taught English in Hungary. Whilst there is a particular type of eye shape of Finnish people and some Sammi blondes, that is the single thing that has a near "asian" appearance. Asians from region to region also have quite different looks. In reality I think a lot of...

It is a very fun question to delve into. First off, humans as we know weren't alone in Europe when they arrived, Neanderthals were there. We don't know how they communicated, but they must have had some way, even if intuitive. However, for modern humans, I would imagine it wasn't so simple...

What is interesting historically is that the first response of people upon finding new land wasn't to tell the world "Hey, we've got a load of other humans here. Shall we make friends?" The Dutch, Portugese and Chinese kept their discoveries well hidden. The Chinese on the extreme purged...

What I think would happen if a country as large as England was sampled is that a whole new haplogroup (or more) would be discovered, and with that, maybe one of them would be recently mutated. If haplogroups can have a time frame of about 20,000 years or so, how come we haven't seen a few new...

This is a great topic and it is really interesting as it raised a sore point with many cultures, but especially sensitive Greeks. We have things like "my ancestors weren't black" and comments like "you're saying someone was there before the Greeks?". It seems in almost every culture...

Old thread and quite exciting. I was just wondering why, if the arrows are used as potential proof of contact between European technology and native american, couldn´t this exchange have happened in Siberia? For example if there are two accepted migrations into America with two groups of...

Does anyone know what these N1c people were like beyond the Y chromosome? Were they in the same group as the R1as? My main curiousity is that it looks to me that people in the Artic circle had a very different appearance before the turn of the century, and nowadays are almost...

The last guy to try and make his own country near Italy got his oil rig demolished. There is a general European trend going towards petty states within a federal system, it is rather interesting but we're becoming as equally homogeneous in Europe as we are "bespoke". I wonder what passport La...

It is really interesting that there are human chimeras also. There was a woman in America whose DNA didn't match up with her children, it turned up she had absorbed her brother in the womb and retained his DNA. Blood chimeras are also common, yet even more interesting related to the idea of...

Could you forge metal if you went to live on a desert island? This same phenomenon needlessly happened in China during the great leap forward not very long ago. The whole country was under the impression anyone could do anything if they put their mind to it. They were told they needed steel so...

Considering no one knows how exactly a Y DNA changes, isn't it possible one person gets the fresh mutation and his brother doesn't?

My friend Stefania told me there was one ginger in Bologna and all the women wanted a piece of him. I am dark blonde but some of my beard is red, where does this leave me on the marriage market in Italy? I had been under the impression that I could use my freckles as a status symbol, and now I'm...