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Unlikely as Basal Eurasians never mixed with Neanderthals. I'd rather think Basal Eurasians stayed in the Arabian Peninsula and/or southern Iran whereas other groups moved further to South Asia or...

What's very little to you? Iberia has ~20-25% steppe admixture all over it, and as the 2018 study on more than 300 aDNA samples showed it had even quite a bit more (certainly more than 30%) until the...

Just so you know about the next chapters of this never-ending fantastic story, he is now all over the question & answer social network Quora making questions about his own theory and answering them...

Then what haplogroups would've every male outside of East or Southeast Asia belonged to before 50-55kya? The study seems to argue C, D and F (FT) all arose there, so what remains for all the rest of...

Iberians have far more Yamnaya-related ancestry than CA/BA Iranian/South Caucasian ancestry, so that isn't a great start to this hypothesis.

The report says that according to that study: "he first was inbreeding, which harms the fitness of the population. The second involved so-called Allee effects, where small populations fail to grow...

Why? Do you think war and population flight are enough to explain the depopulation that was followed by a really big genetic shift in the northern part of the Balkans (which is suggestive of a low...

That's really bizarre. I can only imagine people thought the danger of descending into a civil war between several factions supporting different families and candidates to the throne would be even...

Wait, did they reach this conclusion based on the modern geographic distribution of Mt-DNA lineages (when we know Africa underwent dramatic demographic changes in the last 4,000 years alone, let...

You know, I have wondered if the fact that Etruscans seem to have developed from a subset of Urnfield culture, which also occupied much of what already had steppic ancestry since many centuries...

The study says that, according to their genetic analysis (they compared the gene variants found in the Denisovan DNA sample to similar gene variants that are linked to abnormal physical features in...

Wow really impressive artwork! I had never seen some of these, and some that I knew are here far better pictured, and I can see their beauty much more clearly. Thank you!

Oh God, what a nonsense to anyone with a modicum of interest in historical linguistics. It seems many people still do not get that:
1) sound similarities are just the very first step to prove any...

You're readings posts too fast and inattentively. I said some think the Gutians might be Indo-European-speaking and were thought by some to be distantly related to Tocharians, that is, one of the...

Ah, now that sounds more interesting to be investigated, particularly because a southern route of dispersion for Graeco-Armenian cannot be ruled out. In any case, the Mukania > Mazania change just...

How do you link Mazandaran or Mazania to Mycenae? Sound similarity alone or is there something else? The two words do not even sound very similar in fact, because Ancient Greek would have Mycenae...

When I read Cyrus' posts, I always wonder if there is anything and anyone in Europe that didn't start in Iran or has a direct connection with Iran, having come directly from there already with their...

So don't most of your comments basically point to a PIE origin and expansion coming from the eastern Balkans with a population formed by a mix of SE European EEF with PC Steppe people, eventually...

That doesn't work as evidence, because, first of all, Hittite doesn't have that word, so it's irrelevante when it was (and I'm sure you can appreciate the difference between written attestation and a...

I think you're letting your biases against what Anthony thinks obscure your judgement, because it seems pretty clear to me that the children were kept in the tell towns and lived and died there...

So, for what it's worth, I decided to play a bit with the aDNA samples available in the Global25 datasheets, and though these are of course flawed and only proximate models I think they're still...

Wasn't Repin a derivation of Khvalynsk at least partially? Maybe Siberian input was only more than negligible in the northern parts (core Khvalynsk territory) and not more to the South, or it was...

The CHG that mixed with EHG to form Eneolithic Steppe and later Yamnaya people seems to be pretty diverged in relation to the CHG represented by the South Caucasus DNA samples that we have found to...

Nothing to do with R1b-L51, Cyrus. The sample is autosomally almost identical to modern Portuguese and Spanish people and shares a very similar combination of genetic admixtures with them, also...

Do we know the ultimate point of dispersal of the ancestors of Ashkenazis after the emigration from Judea, but before their consolidated settlement in Europe? Or did they simply jump right to Europe...