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Pretty fascinating actually. The Egyptian more or less fits my idea of what the ancient Egyptians looked like. Some people today have agendas to try to make that something else, either in the European or African direction. They seemed like a unique, ancient, intermediate population.

Sheesh, does it really matter to people the exact like square kilometer that their people's ethnogenesis supposedly took place? Jeez. That's like kinda strange in this day and age, with a globalized world. Most countries would rather point to actual achievements of their people and culture, and...

Typical Turk:

I've noticed there sure is a lot of emphasis on Albania in this forum for such a small country. I wonder why that is.

You know that's something I've wondered about myself... I'm one of the few Romanians who actually believes the ethnogenesis was more complex than the mainstream and basic school texts tell you (I guess because I mostly grew up abroad and did independent non-biased research). I think it's a...

Modern: Distance to: Nicu 2.93673288 Bulgaria_Northcentral 3.15423525 Bulgaria_Northwestern 3.25674684 Bulgaria_average 3.31276320 Romania_Muntenia 3.35110430 Bulgaria_Southcentral 3.53988700 Romania_Wallachia 3.54440404 Romania_Dobruja 3.57457690 Pomak_Bulgaria 3.84473666...

Exactly, that is very true. Pretty much all Romance languages went through the same process within the last 1000 years or so, with Romanian undergoing it more recently in the last two centuries, thus the changes and differences are more striking and noticeable. Greek also underwent some of that...

My Dodecad k7b results: Dodecad k12b: MLDP k16:

My background is mostly (southwestern) Romanian with some northern Greek and Aromanian Vlach, as well as a bit of northern Italian. My results were a combination of Byzantine and Gaulish, oddly enough. Not sure how that came up. Also got Gallo-Romans and such as high on my list. The weird...

This classification of people thing is kinda weird, ngl... it reminds me of the old racial scientists from the early 20th century. I think that stuff is considered outdated now bro.

Moderately worried to be honest. Should probably be more worried. Feel like we're passing on the problems to later generations, although we're already starting to feel the effects. Just feel like we as individuals are basically helpless against it. The major problems can only be solved by...

It's true that much of the Latin lexicon in Albanian was taken from Vulgar Latin rather than directly from Romanian or Eastern Romance (although obviously that evolved from this as well). But it seems Albanian borrowed them earlier than the emergence of individual Vlach languages, or at least it...

Italo-Celtic is a commonly proposed grouping of IE languages. Some believe they split apart only around 1200-1000 BC or so.

Most of the native animals to Australia were actually marsupials before the arrival of Westerners, who introduced other kinds.

You can find Egyptians and North Africans like this today. Also interesting from the Greco-Roman period are the Fayyum Mummy portraits, which look fairly realistic.

It's probably native to the region, contrary to what some Serbs think. An interesting language isolate within Indo-European though, may be connected to some ancient Illyrian/Thracian ones. There is also an interesting and unique link with Romanian/Eastern Romance that no other languages share...

Heh, and they tell us all this stuff about the Amazon shrinking to almost nothing. It's still a significant boundary, although there are cities out there like Manaus and stuff. Another boundary to consider is the Andes Mountain range itself. Anyway I get the impression Argentina, Uruguay, and...

I think it's a mixture of nature and nurture, but there is more emphasis on nature than some would like to believe in today's world. But it's a complex interaction between a lot of factors. I agree that some are not destined to be on top regardless of how much expensive schooling they have, and...

Cool. It's kind of too bad that Europe lost its once native lion population many thousands of years ago. The Lowenmensch figurine was a paleolithic carving of a lion man from 30k years ago in Germany, which is interesting. That's in addition to actual saber-toothed tigers that lived in caves as...

In the distant future, I think so. But it will be quite a while until we get to the point where they are ubiquitous... In the process, robots and other AI like self-driving cars will only heighten the disparity between rich and poor people and nations. Who knows what kinds of ethical dilemmas...