Recent content by Leopoldo Leone

It didn't "confirm" what we "already knew", unless by "we" you mean mattoids from anthrogenica and other delusional individuals. I have grown accustomed to cr*p being published but I shan't pretend it is good scholarship. If you think that I am too harsh go take a look at their qpAdm models...

I think that papers like this shows the problem with reading literally qpAdm admixtures without checking the results against other tests: the results exposed in table 8 in the supplementaries are inconsistent with the Balkans being a cline, since it is rather discrete with some populations...

Found this tweet, there's a PCA but it's blurry.

I am getting tired of the obsession, which verges on the mental illness, that many hobbyists have about making southern Italians as middle easterners as possible: if the resolution is too low, the PCA can be found on page 65 of the supplementary data of the paper from which the sample under...

It is such a glaring mistake to speak of a "Levantine" admixture, because as far as the evidence goes there is positive evidence of little to none Levantine admixture, since all the "near easterners" samples minus one in the Balkans were Anatolians (actually the samples rejected any direct...

It is ideological thrash, I have no other words to describe such "brilliant" paper's thesis (which isn't based on empirical data but on the a priori hypothesis about Italy becoming mixed during the empire and then late antiquity with northern Europeans and middle easterners). It makes no sense...

Even the southernmost Europeans roughly can be modelled as being 50% Scandinavian (for example, let's take the proto-greeks harbouring around 40%-50% steppe as vaguely similar to northern Europeans and subsequent greeks that had around 20% were 40-50% northern European) and 50% EEF, since this...

It is no use to pretend any coherent words from the user nick6899, since he showed no compliance to the basic requirements of discourse, namely to back up what one says. Therefore, it is only just, not rude at all, to regard what he says as utter blabbering, devoid of any sensible information...

How was I "proven wrong" and how is your "a simple and very brief clarification of [that] reality", and how is this "obvious that south Italians (or Greeks) have large extra-european admixture"? I'll bring up just the most recent paper...

According to the actual evidence, there isn't "Levantne/Anatolian" admixture in southern Italians, and I dare say that according to the actual evidence it isn't at all likely that it will be discovered because it "flew under the radar"- it hasn't been found because it isn't at detectable levels...

You can't say that the "slavic ancestry drops to 10-15%" as a fact when it is the result of this paper which must even go through peer review... Anyway, it is not a shocking revelation that ADMIXTURE runs depend on the selection of reference pops, so if one chooses different reference pops...

How does it work? He co-authored a paper that argues for great continuity in Albanians, so in order to him to hold that Greeks are in a genealogical sense Cypriot mixed with Slavs he must believe that somehow by pure coincidence there's an overlap between north Greeks and Albanians (unless he...

I have noticed that the bulk of the Daunian samples are close to/overlap with Sicily BA: We've heard uncountable "theories" about as dramatic as ridiculous demographic replacements in south/central Italy thanks to various exotic peoples from far away, but it is clear from the data that south...

Indeed no one in his right mind speaks of drastical population changes, because any one who has a sound historical understanding grasps the difference between a scenario in which upper middle class foreigners moved into urban centers and a scenario in which somehow an entire region got...

I haven't read a single valid line of defense from your part, I'll compare your procedures to what archaeogenetists do: they use MANY various methods in order to test, as far as possible, a hypothesis BASED on an overall historical reconstruction (narration + explanation) grounded on the...