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Paper just got released, hopefully some treats in store - after such a long time waiting for interesting aDNA papers it better be worth it! https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaax0061 The ancient Mediterranean port city of Ashkelon, identified as “Philistine” during the Iron Age...

True actually, men also get their X chromosome only from their mother (even if it isn't matrilineal), I was too quick there. I still doubt what you're saying is correct though.

Lol, men do not only inherit IQ from their mothers, that's so dumb. The only unique thing you get from your mum is mtDNA - that's precisely the reason it's useful for distinguishing population migrations when the autosomes are all muddled up (and Y DNA is still much more useful than mtDNA)

Well that Dene-Caucasian theory made the most sense to me given Bell Beakers probably spoke Vasconic and I still like the idea the PIE was spoken by Anatolians originally. It does seem far-fetched, but so does the whole Dene-Caucasian language family. R1b L23 PC Steppe-derived cultures were the...

M269 is very old.

I can't help but think that somehow you're going to relate this back to being Albanian too

But you're wrong. Anatolian Z2103 is far older than that, and it spread from the Caucasus as it is the West Asian variety. Your theory is wrong, so show some flexibility in changing it. There's no shame, I've changed a theory I held for a long time and was pretty confident in after the Maykop...

Not true, because it's of the West Asian variety. I would associate it with the Hattic-Kaskian branch. I now believe in a hybrid Anatolian hypothesis, by the way, with LPIE spreading to Sredny Stog with C-T (Urheimat in Central Anatolia, same area as the very old Catalhoyuk on the Konya plain...

I am so looking forward to seeing these results (wait this doesn't even seem to be aDNA :sad-2:), to me these people are my precursors. Not in an edgy, macho, ethnocentric Albanian-like way, but this is the earliest group of people I can feel any sense of kinship towards.

iirc verbal intelligence and strong working memory are the main characteristics

Not SE France which is a shame, but I'd love to know what that 4th mBC guy was like

No idea who keeps disliking your posts but it's just pointless (who really cares about ratings on an online forum anyway)

Given the fact that there was a typical G2a farmer type amongst more CHG-heavy pred. J2 types that also expanded across Anatolia to Greece warfare is surely the only real solution no? I know farmers are seen as weak but surely they're not naturally submissive. Elite dominance via social status...

RIP thread :( Wang ruining all the fun

From here: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-mating-asian-herders-european-farmers Anybody else as confused as I am? I thought there were only two remaining camps - the Southern origin associated with the source of Steppe CHG and the indigenous Northern Steppe origin. But now, it looks...

Eh, they'll only use it to help solve crimes. I can't think of anything dystopic that could reasonably come from this, although it is a disgrace they didn't even ask for permission.

Interesting is what this means for the potential of Rifaximin - it's an antibiotic, but absorbed so poorly that it only acts locally in the gut. Perhaps a three day treatment followed by probiotics of beneficial butyrate-producing strains of bacteria would be a good path to go down.

You don’t think that I’m Jewish? I’m some Nazi t-roll using the Jewish tag as cover on a random online forum? I’m actually a third(?) generation Holocaust survivor technically (grandpa lived during the war but hidden as a baby so not sure if that counts), but that sort of thing really annoys me...

Uh-oh, people might be going for the Galilean-not-Jewish Jesus hypothesis on Stormfront right about now... It is odd though, especially if the dating is correct. The 2800 ybp figurine can somewhat easily be explained, as Judaism wasn't the same at all as it is now (which is broadly speaking...

Nice, I was definitely one of those people who associated Cro-Magnons as being giant meatheads