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The women I know are as a rule less dependent and better at forming new relationships than the men I know. If they are at all representative it doesn't surprise me that women don't derive the same benefits from marriage and children. It took me a while to realize thisbecause popular culture...

Interesting that the right-pull did not affect Germany to the same extent. Among 18-29 yos the Afd is at a mere 6% - if you restrict it to West Germany it is even less.

I mean they probably did eat much more meat than almost any modern population unless they lived the tropics. Eurasian forests don't have enough fruit to sustain anyone.

It does make a lot of sense to me that large ruminant meat would induce growth in children. Those robust Paleolithic humans were eating lots of meat too, weren't they? Up to 80% greater upper body muscle mass is crazy.

I think they just refer to the general view that R1a = Indo-Iranian, and they leave open whether that's actually true.

Is there any way you could get the paper? They have Parthian samples too, awesome.

Which archaelogical cultures might be associated with Proto-Iranian? Witzel believed the East Iranian homeland to be in northern Afghanistan IIRC.

Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominancehttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3346985 Uniparentals: PCA:

This is wishful thinking. Read the Iberia paper. No R1b in high status Maykop graves either, just J, G & L.

This paper had samples from Kalehöyük, one of the major Hittite sites after Hattusa: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6396/eaar7711 3x J2a, 1x G2a The Greek paper had samples from Gondürle Hoyük, another major site which is a bit more western. The male was J1.

I find it unlikely that it will be anything but the same old J & G that was already found, but we'll see.

Hecateaus is the earliest IIRC, and he places them in the southern Dalmatian coastal area, i. e. right where these samples are. The Zeta plain is near the coast as well, and that's where the chiefly kurgans are. No reason to think these weren't Illyrian.

Actually I mixed things up, the kurgans are from the bay of Kotor. Similar to Iberians and Hungarians respectively: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9o3EYTdM8lQXy1feWVFYWp0WlE/view Still early Illyrian, although Zeta plain would be earlier still if we go by Greek accounts.

We have DNA from kurgans in the Zeta plain, it doesn't get more 'Illyrian' than this. Believe whatever you want.

Not a good argument IMHO, Western Balkan lineages are too bottlenecked. What about BA/IA Montenegro, BA Pannonia? There must have been a turnover. Macedonians were Eastern Balkanic, but Dardanians might be interesting.

Why? Iron Age Moldovans and Bulgarians have lots of it, as do modern Romanians.

All analyses I've seen are pretty much in agreement (I think Eurogenes has done all of them), as are the distances to modern populations. As for the origin of the CHG shift, peninsular Italy was likely settled by Bronze Age Aegeans, perhaps directly from Anatolia. In the Western Balkans I'd...

2 Bronze Age Dalmatians and 1 Bronze Age Montenegrin were Iberian-like. 1 Bronze Age Pannonian was French-like. Care to explain where the CHG-shift affecting Serbs, Albanians, Vlachs etc. comes from?

Just out, avg. height for late highschool boys in one city 187.6cm. Crazy, this must be the result of recent selection. Nutrition isn't enough imo. I'll never go there.