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Riverman, you could make some money: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxken/russian-tiktok-influencers-paid-propaganda

Well, Russia did arrange for the representatives council to vote for joining Russia. Before that, they installed armed guards throughout the building and isolated the council. I would guess there was only one “right decision” possible. There was also a plebiscite that only Russia recognises...

Russia signed an agreement with Ukraine to move out from Sevastopol. They even started building a new major base on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. However, this didn’t go too well, which may be one of the reasons why they decided to resort to aggression and occupy Crimea. As to the locals...

This seems appropriate: http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/glubb.pdf ”The weakness of pacifism is that there are still many peoples in the world who are aggressive. Nations who proclaim themselves unwilling to fight are liable to be conquered by peoples in the stage of militarism— perhaps even to...

A country with a chicken on the coat of arms will never beat a country with a fork on theirs.

I’ll just leave these links here, to remind us that Russian military aggression against Ukraine started almost exactly 8 years before the current invasion. Coincidentally, thanks to Donbas Ukraine has 400 000 men who have recent war experience. And Russia sends poorly trained conscripts to...

Congratulations! Results like this make one wonder, how many branches thousands of years old are still waiting to be uncovered. Looking at your initial question if this is a Norman subclade, I wonder if you can clearly distinguish between Anglo-Saxon and Norman heritage based on 13th century...

The authors tried to extract DNA from animal bones in the same layer, failed, and opted to wait for better methods to appear.

L759 seems to be an outdated designation for one of the SNP-s defining I1. See https://www.genetichomeland.com/welcome/dnamarkerindex.asp?snp=L759&chromosome=Y

Abstract Anatomically modern humans evolved around 300 thousand years ago in Africa. They started to appear in the fossil record outside of Africa as early as 100 thousand years ago, although other hominins existed throughout Eurasia much earlier. Recently, several studies argued in favor of a...

The oldest ancient U5b1b1 discovered thus far is from Central Europe (Czechia, Poland) 7000 ybp.

An alternative hypothesis would be that the high numbers in Finland and Sweden reflect the high proportion of HG ancestry in these populations. In any case, this is an ancient European haplotype. FTDNA shows 40+ people from the British Isles having the haplotype, compared to 400+ from Finland.

From the paper: "Kinship coefficients are a measure of the proportion of genome-wide IBD in a pair of individuals. The abundance of long IBD segments can be a robust indicator of close relatedness in a large unstructured population and is therefore widely used by direct-to-consumer genetic...

Patterns of genetic connectedness between modern and medieval Estonian genomes reveal the origins of a major ancestry component of the Finnish population The Finnish population is a unique example of a genetic isolate affected by a recent founder event. Previous studies have suggested that the...

Is this the first example of a population that was genetically isolated for a long time while still interacting with neighbours?

The ANE sample used in the study (AG3) is also the oldest sample where the hair-lightening KITLG gene mutation was spotted.

The sample with the rs12821256 mutation should be AfonfovaGora3 from Mathieson 2018 - The Genomic History of Southeastern Europe. Pg 52 of the supplement is where they discuss KITLG. Considering the variety of blond from light browns and reds to platinum blonds and whatnot, it does make perfect...

Maixner et al (2021) Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period We subjected human paleofeces dating from the Bronze Age to the Baroque period (18th century AD) to in-depth microscopic, metagenomic...

From Wikipedia on “blond”: the oldest fossil known to carry the derived KITLG allele, which is responsible for blond hair in modern Europeans, is a 17,000 year old Ancient North Eurasian specimen from eastern Siberia. Referencing David Reich, Gavin Evans and this article: Carlberg, Carsten...

I1 is one of the paternal lines of WHG. The Nordic region is where the hunter-gatherer lifestyle survived the longest. Light skin (and blonde hair that often comes with it) is a beneficial trait in the higher latitudes where sunlight is scarce in the winter. It helps the body produce more...