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What are centuries in comparison to the ages of 10 thousands of years for Haplogroups my friend. Also your statement doesn't contradict what I said it basically confirms it. As you said Europe and Asia was divided in the minds (geopolitical/ethnocultural division) of the Europeans and Asians, but geologically this division between Europe and Asia doesn't exist.
I think that geologically there is a pretty good division in the form of the Ural Mountains and the Bosphorus, with the boundary only being fuzzy on the steppes, as I said. And yes, the very real cultural divide between Europe and Asia is quite a recent thing, and there is no genetic divide if we're looking at ancient origin points. And even today western Asia is much closer genetically to Europe than eastern Asia, autosomally. And of course those haplotypes that some people want to make so much of turn up everywhere, so we have to look at subclades to see migration patterns. So the division between Europe and Asia does seem artificial from a long term genetic point of view. But I think the geographic boundaries are as real as the social and political boundaries - we know whether we're in Europe and Asia except on the steppes, which provide the connecting corridor.