Angela
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I am just going to wait for more samples instead of taking the mascism from them, just like the nonsense some of them were spreading about Yamna genes. At the end of the day when it turns out like I am saying the same people will act like : "OH we didn't see that coming "
Mark my words. R1a* came either through the South_central Asia route or directly through the Caucasus and they had already picked up various female lineages such as H, U and T it's not like this mixture does not exist in this region already.
I don't know where it came from, Alan, and honestly it won't matter to me personally either way, but at the end of the day some of the people who have been determined to associate the "R" lineage more with "Europe" and to remove any hint of an origin elsewhere will just move the goalpost to a later clade if it's proven that R1 did indeed move out of Iran. It's already happening. Not every "Kurganist" is like that however. Jean Manco, for one, had R1 in that area for years, and of course, Maciamo's views on the origin of R1b are well known.
Similarly, I don't really know how all that "Near Eastern" got into Yamna, and through them into Europe, but time and more adna should make it a little clearer. My problem is that I don't see a clearly archaeologically attested farmer population on the steppe that can be reliably tied to a specifically Caucasus population. I'm starting to think we should be looking perhaps at the Stans?
My point in referring to this other Blog was that once again an attempt was being made to explain away the significance of that component, or to make it somehow less "Near Eastern", and RK's in my opinion excellent analysis of the statistics in the Haak paper put an end to it, and also explained the confusing Gedrosia signals in Europe. I didn't know if it was kosher to lift whole long quotes from another blog, or I would have posted them here.