Recent content by polako

This study is very basic. A lot of the inferences are wrong or at the very least not very precise, probably because they're simply based on modern samples and ADMIXTURE, which is not a formal mixture test. Botigué et al. was a lot more capable. I won't even try and compare this to Lazaridis et al.

The samples aren't labeled so its hard to know who they represent, but it doesn't hurt to speculate as long as the analysis is correct. You're the one screwing up, because you don't understand that the results you're analyzing are biased. It's basic high school science. You should try and...

Here's the problem; the ancient genomes aren't Dodecad samples, so you're comparing apples to oranges. Please try and understand this. It's really not very complicated. This is the basic rule: Unless samples are tested under exactly the same conditions, then their results can't be directly...

The PCA results are backed up with f3 formal stats and UNBIASED admixture results. The Dodecad results you used for your write up are biased. They're biased because of the calculator effect. You can read about it here. Please try and understand it, because if you do, you'll be able to analyze...

They couldn't have changed the character of mtDNA H across Europe too much, because they didn't carry much mtDNA H. Their contribution is better seen in the rising levels of U4, U5, U2, and I in much of Europe after the Neolithic.

The fact that most of the modern mtDNA H diversity and distribution was established in Europe by the middle Neolithic doesn't contradict the fact that there was no mtDNA turnover in Europe 6,000 years ago. That's because this diversity and distribution was established via gradual migrations...

I never claimed there was a major turnover of mtDNA 6,000 years ago. You did and the evidence is in the posts above. No, the authors very obviously state that the major portion of European mtDNA H diversity and distribution was established by the middle Neolithic, around 6,000 years ago. This...

Holy shit. Is English your first language or not? The paper says exactly what the abstract says. This is the part from the abstract that you're not getting. So let's break this down: By 4,000 BC (or 6,000 years ago) the current diversity and distribution of mtDNA H was largely...

Let me try and explain again. Your understanding of the study: Europe's modern mtDNA signature was largely established about 6000 years ago, in the mid Neolithic, by people of an unknown origin who largely replaced the early Neolithic farmers, for reasons that aren't yet clear. What the study...

No, the study doesn't say that. It says that Europe's modern mtDNA signature was largely established about 6000 years ago as a result of migrations into Europe during the early Neolithic. However, it also says that from the late Neolithic onwards there were new migration waves into the heart of...

Why don't you just use the K13 population averages by turning them into WHG/ANE/EEF ratios? You seem extremely butthurt about something, so any discussion based on logic is pointless. But yes, the Eurogenes EEF/WHG/ANE scores do make more sense than those from the paper in some ways, like the...

What, you've never actually seen any academic studies with obviously bogus results? I can show you several if you're really interested. Your constant whining and efforts to appeal to authority are getting tiresome. Try using that noodle of yours for a change. Of course, the best thing to do...

You can always run the EEF/WHG/ANE Excel test on these K13 averages. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9o3EYTdM8lQY2c2RW5hUlNvNzg/edit?usp=sharing

In West Central Europe. This area has pretty much anything you can think of except the younger Central Asian subclades like L657 and stuff below that, simply because it hasn't been affected by migrations from Central Asia. In fact, L657 is completely missing from all of Europe. West Central...

He posted an old study which relied on STRs to measure variance. STRs are useless for that sort of thing, as we now know. It seems we're having a discussion with some people who can't grasp the basics here... 1) All Near Eastern admixture in most of Europe (except Sicily) can be explained by...