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This is in admixtools documentation: Looks like qpfstats itself was introduced just a year ago with v7.0

That’s a good find. In the conclusion, they also mention that foraging remained an important activity when farming required less time, e.g. in the winter and spring. Vitamins and minerals are specifically mentioned, as well as some wikd berries in their selection of plants. Long term...

The Wikipedia article on Mehrgarh mentions jujube fruit cultivation.

The Wikipedia article on Çatalhöyük mentions the growing of peas and fruit harvesting in nearby hills. Sadly with no immediate source reference.

As to long term health effects that are recent knowledge, I would assume these would just contribute to a shorter lifespan for some people.

Doggerland, have a look at the Allium family (onions, leeks etc) and consider the possibility of small kitchen gardens inside the city. Cultivation of rosehips, wild apples etc next to houses also seems plausible.

There is some interesting information here: Snoddy et al, Scurvy at the agricultural transition in the Atacama desert (ca 3600–3200 BP): nutritional stress at the maternal-foetal interface?, 2017 They do find significant signs of deficiencies, but hesitate to attribute these to diet alone...

In Britain, the RDA is only 40 mg, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a minimum amount of C needed by the body was even less. Even in a city of several thousand, it’s also feasible that the people still utilise the countryside for collecting berries, incl those that can be stored for the winter...

Thank you for an interesting viewpoint! Here is an overview of botanical remains in ancient Turkish sites (cannot post proper links): Bogaard et al 2017, Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic...

The number of individual mutations you and your 14th cousin carry have should roughly indicate the number of centuries since the clade appeared. I would expect the TMRCA be close to your common forefather.

FTDNA have just released a tool to indicate the matches of your autosomal DNA with the MyOrigins reference populations. It seems that this can be used to indicate, how many generations ago you had ancestors fom the minor populations. For instance, in my case, I have 82 cM and 47 cM segments...

Considering how widespread M458 is, it appears our ancestors have successfully navigated around the genetic risks...

A common 1.6 mb Y-chromosomal inversion predisposes to subsequent deletions and severe spermatogenic failure in humans Abstract Male infertility is a prevalent condition, affecting 5–10% of men. So far, few genetic factors have been described as contributors to spermatogenic failure. Here, we...

The Saag 2021 data seems to be available at https //evolbio.ut.ee/