I have found the article about this topics very interesting and well done. The description of prehistoric populations of our continent and what probably happened to them seems to me very rational and plausible. I have got some comments about:
- I think it should be better to indicate who are the authors of this section.
- There is a “Trivia”, very trivial for sure, which claims that “kings of many European countries have been confirmed to be R1b”. Who are these kings? In the Web I have found only four historical European dynasties tested: Swedish Folkung belonging to Y haplogroup I1, Lithuanian Gediminas and Russian Rurikid to Y haplogoup N and Romanov to R1b; this accordingly to the main groups of countries they reigned.
- Another point of the article affirms that “preliminary research has already established a link between certain haplogroups and increased sperm mobility”. What kind of research is this? It is very difficult to believe that exist a link between DNA mutations occurred in non codifying zones of Y chromosome, like those which define Y haplogroups, and some very codified properties like sperm ones.
- It is not clear who is the real mtDNA haplogroup correlated to Y-DNA R1: “J” that is said to have connection with it, “W” that is said equivalent of it or “I” that is defined mirror of R1.
- It is cited in the sources Kalevi Wiik’s work “Where did European men come from” that assumes that IE languages was developed first by Balkan people of haplogroup I unlike what it is said in the article.
- I think it should be better to indicate who are the authors of this section.
- There is a “Trivia”, very trivial for sure, which claims that “kings of many European countries have been confirmed to be R1b”. Who are these kings? In the Web I have found only four historical European dynasties tested: Swedish Folkung belonging to Y haplogroup I1, Lithuanian Gediminas and Russian Rurikid to Y haplogoup N and Romanov to R1b; this accordingly to the main groups of countries they reigned.
- Another point of the article affirms that “preliminary research has already established a link between certain haplogroups and increased sperm mobility”. What kind of research is this? It is very difficult to believe that exist a link between DNA mutations occurred in non codifying zones of Y chromosome, like those which define Y haplogroups, and some very codified properties like sperm ones.
- It is not clear who is the real mtDNA haplogroup correlated to Y-DNA R1: “J” that is said to have connection with it, “W” that is said equivalent of it or “I” that is defined mirror of R1.
- It is cited in the sources Kalevi Wiik’s work “Where did European men come from” that assumes that IE languages was developed first by Balkan people of haplogroup I unlike what it is said in the article.