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I don't think marijuana is nearly as benign as people imagine, especially today's marijuana (as opposed to marijuana circa 1990)

Further, now that it's been decriminalized in NYC, it's ubiquitous....

So when Angela says, "this is a whole new way of looking at European ancestry" ---> the point is that Reich et al are going to look at modern European populations as different blends of six different...

Jovialis, could you elaborate on this point? Or did you want to go over Moots with a fine-tooth comb first?

Certainly it appears that G2a2b lines moved from Balkans during Copper Age to Western...

ha ha, guilty as charged ---> somehow the latest Ancestry.com results have me as more Irish (42%) than Italian (38%, plus another 8% Greece & Balkans). I should be a quarter English, but somehow...

Hi Dema -- Thanks for the G2a info. A few remarks.

First, I am surprised to see the U1 branch represented in Rome (circa 1-400 CE). Although Pip was banned, I found his discussion of the L140...

Elementary question. Isn't Steppe ancestry itself roughly 50% CHG/Iran Neo, with the balance Ancient North Eurasian and EHG? And isn't ANE found in Native Americans?

My impression is that the...

Spanish Hapsburgs bad, ancient Egyptians much worse -- I am thinking of Cleopatra and near kin, literally sisters marrying brothers, etc, if memory serves

But so far as I can tell from amateur...

Off-topic, but what are odds that Italians with surname Pugliese trace back to Puglia? Or, as ever, are things way too complicated to say or even speculate? I realize that Pugliese in Southern...

Is this actually true? The dispersion of Jewish merchant communities across the Mediterranean pre-dates the destruction of the Temple by several centuries. And as for the Jews who farmed the land,...

For a sympathetic literary portrait of Pilate, see the novella by Roger Caillois ---->

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I started going gray at a ridiculously early age, even before age 18, if memory serves. I also have very thick, slightly wavy hair, and will never go bald. I am pretty sure this all via my maternal...

188 cm and G2a

Was the influx of Iranian-like CHG (caucasian hunter gatherer) across Anatolia into Greece & Southern Italy during the EBA (early bronze age) already admixed with Yamnaya or was it somehow more...

Late Roman Empire? Do we have any evidence to support this? I was under the impression that the South of Italy was more or less "genetically complete" after the Greek migrations of the Magna...

I cannot comment on whether Quiles has an illicit agenda. I am simply intrigued that G2a-Z1903 samples from the Chalcolithic and EBA were found to have no Steppe ancestry in three different studies:...

From page 208 of Game of Clans, by Carlos Quiles ---> "Three Baden samples (ca. 3600-2850 BC) show no contribution of Steppe ancestry (Lipson et al 2017), with one hg. G2a2b2a1a1c1a-Z1903 (formed ca....

Are people here familiar with Game of Clans by Carlos Quiles? I stumbled upon a PDF copy of it last night, prompted by a remark made by Markod on the Ancient Sicily-Sardinia-Balearic thread.
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This is from the Ancient Iberia thread, but relevant to my question

I am not sure if I understand Markod correctly, but this sounds like G2a-Z1903 travelled to Sicily independently of the R1b steppe-derived populations. Or if the two groups did move in tandem, up...

For what it is worth, most of the top French chefs in NYC are from the SW, Gascony and the Basque Country. And Duck in its various parts & guises is absolutely key.

Pip was banned ???!!!

I will be the first to admit that 75% of the comments on Eupedia are over my head, but still, I found him to be a brilliant (if rather contrarian) contributor. And as can be...

Angela -- The 2% Eastern Africa result is from Geno 2.0, not Ancestry.com -----> My view is that if this were a recent & singular admixture event, then it would have been caught by Ancestry (parents...

My understanding is that Ancestry.com goes back roughly 8 generations, whereas Geno 2.0 determines your "deep ancestry" from 500 years ago to 10,000 years ago, which is an awfully long window of...

My Ancestry.com results, which I received less than a month ago, are significantly different than what I received via Geno 2.0 two years ago ---->

Italy 49%
Ireland & Scotland 39% -----> specific...

I agree with Angela about not meddling with ancient grape varietals. Plus, the author seems rather keen on use of chemicals & pesticides. Where has he been past 20 years? At my restaurant, all...