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    How did I2a-Din get to the Balkans?

    There's been no ancient r1a or r1b found in west asia though, either.
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    Light skin allele of SLC24A5 gene was spread by the Indo-Europeans (R1a + R1b)

    There's way more darkening genes than lightening. I am not sure there is any need for whitening genes if you don't have the dark ones. I assume they came about because of darker people coming to an area where light skin fares better, and being strongly selected on. That is speculation but only...
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    Mythology and History

    Yes and no. Some of it should more properly be called oral historic tradition, like the norse sagas and Homerian epics. It's no doubt the shakespeare version of history but history nonetheless. Remember a lot of ancient written history is no doubt embellished as well. Talk of gods and such...
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    Light skin allele of SLC24A5 gene was spread by the Indo-Europeans (R1a + R1b)

    Seems reasonable to me. The question here is not some comparison or who is whitest like these guys seem to think. The question is, does having these particular alleles exclude coloring that's similar to europeans today. Since scandinavian people and Irish people don't always have them, that...
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    Black Irish come from R1b Iranians?

    This has to be the trolliest of your "black Irish" threads yet. Black Irish don't have dark pigment, they just have dark hair. No Black Irish in America are dark. Any dark Irish in Ireland probably come from Basque input or Spanish input from 1600s. Christopher Lee does not have Irish features...
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    Light skin allele of SLC24A5 gene was spread by the Indo-Europeans (R1a + R1b)

    But is there any study looking at how much it actually changes it? Are Irish people without it much darker? I mean there's really not any dark irish people, though maybe that 2% are not really irish.
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    Light skin allele of SLC24A5 gene was spread by the Indo-Europeans (R1a + R1b)

    I see. That is what I suspected. So this is not even fixed in european populations? I guess it is not much to get excited about, then.
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    Kings of France may have been R1b-U106 after all (rather than G2a3b1)

    Doubtful that their patrilineage is correct going back that far.
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    Basques not indoeuropeans?

    Language changes a lot faster than genes. Basques lack the beduoin component entirely, which may have come with IEs. In short I don't think that this hypothesis is really true, IE people had the impact of a fart in the wind, and were much more likely to have r1a than r1b anyway. Until we...
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    Light skin allele of SLC24A5 gene was spread by the Indo-Europeans (R1a + R1b)

    But would you need a whitening allele to become white, if you don't have any specific darkening genes?
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    Light skin allele of SLC24A5 gene was spread by the Indo-Europeans (R1a + R1b)

    How much effect does this whitening allele actually have?
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    Politics Should Crimea be an independent country? (Russian-Ukrainian conflict)

    Ideally it would be independent but having it be a puppet of UE or Russia would probably be its destiny. May as well let it go back to Russia.
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