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188 cm, but my father was only 177 cm at peak height, his father and grandfather quite a bit less. While there is a genetic element to it, you will face an uphill battle trying to prove it correlates with YDNA, since we know a lot of factors are based on diet. We know the European...

Well, some upcoming ancient DNA from Iron Age Syria/Lebanon does indicate EHG type of admixture moving into the Levant that was not previously there in the Bronze or Neolithic periods. That could have introduced lighter colourings that exist in a minority of the population. But, no offense...

In 2018, we still don't have an answer why G2a levels dropped so drastically though. This appears to be the case in LBK, but also apparently in the Iberian Neolithic with a reflux of local I2 lineages. The mtDNA shows continuity.

People have given you several papers to read and tried to guide you in the right direction, but your refusal to accept new information has left you ignorant. Within the last two years a paper came out on the Iberian Neolithic and its spread to Britain, this is a good candidate for the spread of...

What's frustrating is how you arrived at this conclusion without evidence. Based on the EVIDENCE, the Mediterranean Neolithic was spread initially by G2a, followed by local adaptation of European I2 men. R1b-V88 may have been restricted to central Europe and the Balkans. Also, don't lump in...

I've stated this before, but whenever I see Roman busts, I don't see any similarity between the large immigrant communities of Italians in places like Canada and USA. I'm not sure why this is, perhaps because those immigrants came largely from the south of Italy. The bust Angela posted looks...

The later colonists who may have arrived with the Danish settlers happen to be R1b. The L238+ and the U106+ guy seem to fit in with the early Norse, who I suspect were indigenous Norwegians. We know the R1a1 arrived with CWC/Battle Ax, and I1 seems to have already been in the far north since...

The way I see it is that R1b-L584 and R1b-L277 are far too common in Anatolia to have arrived with a later group such as the Turks. There really isn't any other explanation than arriving from the steppes, and both are quite old in the Middle East and the strongest candidates for PIE at least...

I don't think their Catholicism is sanctioned by the Pope, thus is not genuine. Nonetheless, why not just call it Christianity as that's the name of the religion. Having 2 categories is superfluous as Catholicism is just a type of Christianity.

This is because of the way they are modeling the data. There is deeper, shared ancestry between the ancestors of J, and K descendants L (possibly T) and MP(R and maybe Q too). I wouldn't read this graph as "Ma'lta having CHG ancestry" because it just suggests there is an even older ancestor...

Just about everywhere in the Balkans is a I2a-Din hotspot. It has a minor frequency in NE Italy, and some regions of eastern Germany, again mostly linked to where people speak some sort of Slavic language. It is one of the few haplogroups that is clearly linked to a group of people based on...

Sure it is, because I2-CTS1210228 pretty much doesn't exist west of Czech-Republic, obviously the root of the node exists in Loschbour and is considerably old in Europe. That's why it's linked to Slavic speakers. Most likely some of the Slavic tribes were pushed west from Asiatic groups invading...

Not a terrorist attack, at least not driven by religious extremism, I can tell you that. Just a psychopath modeling a massacre off that Rodgers guy a few years ago. I can say he really didn't accomplish much, killing grandmas, middle aged men and women, and a handful of foreign students...

The British will not be controlled, you don't know their psyche. It's unfortunate that there is no good leadership there. If a buffoon wasn't running my country, the former colonies should strengthen ties to the 'motherland' so to speak as the EU has really become a left winged oligarchy.

Huh? Actually R1b isn't common in the Caucasus if you bothered to read a handful of Caucasus related papers within the last 5-6 years. The only ethnic group of the Caucasus to have a non-negligible frequencies of R1b overall are the Armenians, and gosh, happen to be I-E speaking. Please do a...

Quoting false statistics and spreading misinformation perhaps? Just a thought

Not sure why people keep mentioning Spain and "Basques" specifically. R1b rates are equal, and in many cases higher in studies from Ireland and Wales than among Basque studies. Basques are realistically only 75-80% R1b, and mostly under a few young clusters. Better question is why the CHG...

I've speculated that G-P303 was the "Caucasus" minority of Maykop among the predominantly R1b IE speakers.

R1b is not from the Caucasus, rather, R1b has an extremely low diversity amongst all Caucasus groups and does not correlate with any tribe or any highland/lowland region of the Caucasus, or consistently with any linguistic isolates. It is only present in any quantity amongst Armenians...

Not trying to be a pain in the ass but I believe one of the R1b-Z2103 and the I2-M223 "Yamnayans" carried copies of the common blonde hair mutation.