Just finished the Supplement and then took a look at other sites to see the comments. Some were insightful, some very disappointing. Every person whose pet agenda is at all negatively impacted has pulled out the knives. Without being able to point to anything wrong with the analysis, and without having even looked at the actual samples, one blogger stated outright that he's out to disprove the conclusions of the paper. Very sad. Not, of course, that any group of researchers is necessarily correct 100% of the time, but this particular group has a very good track record, and some of them created the very statistical programs being used. So, we shall see.
the "reasonings of this blogger you mean are so pathethic, he doesn't even try to hide his agenda. He always jumps out with a knife when it is about that I1945: P1(xQ, R1b1a2, R1a1a1b1a1b, R1a1a1b1a3a, R1a1a1b2a2a) individual and despite knowing nothing, "Assumes" it must be R2 without any reasonable reasoning and his believers who seem to not be able to think for themselves just swallow it ^^
Especially some of those guys on Anthrogenica are the worst. I haven't seen such a bunch of non thinking individuals on one place for long time. You can't even read their coments properly without account as if they are some kind of special organisation but all I see is that roughly 90% of the freakn Forum are too lazy to think for themselves and eat everything out of the hand of him. He doesn't even need to give a reasoning, He could write "it is so because I said so" and several of these individuals including the Admin would give him just out of their "principles" a thumps up. Remember I got blocked there not because I insulted anyone but because I was one of the few who tackled that "prophetic bloggers" words.
They blocked me with the reasoning of creating too much "controversy" lol. So you are only allowed to be in this special group if you swallow what a few individuals spit.
When you ask how is that this individual is going to be "R2" ( chance of 1 to possibly 1/4 at least considering how many R1a and R1b subclades are possible) all you get as answer is a "Haha no R1 in ancient Near Eastern. " while the sample is most likely some branch of R1a or R1b. And take in mind where R2 is there shouldn't be R1 far off either.
By so much pathethic ness I just wish R1 is going to be found somewhere in Africa just to piss them off ^^
Now about the EHG in Calcolthic Iran, I think I did write this under this bloggers comments once, We might even find some EHG on the Iranian Plateau because I believe there has to have been something ANE or even Proto EHG like in South_Central Asia. So I believe this EHG indeed might have come from South_Central Asia.
Another possibility is that this is very ancient relationship between the CHG like and EHG like ancestry.
[QUOT]Eather than accept this formulation, it was stated that the intrusive population to the steppe might be a combination of EHG, CHG and CT or "Old Europe" presumably, and that Lazaridis et al never bother to test that possibility. Well, uh, they did test it, and show the results in the Supplement for a possible admixture of EHG, [/QUOTE]
Yup Lazaridis just doesn't know what he is talking about because he didn't test the possibility of EHG, CHG and CT (sarcasm), everything just don't come too close to a possible Iranian Plateau origin of PIE lol.