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Do your percentages mean that the Finnish Amerindian percentage is so high because
it arrived at least twice, first with the Solutreans (5-6% evenly spread over
Northern Europe) and next with some yDNA N clade?
To be precise, AG did not have the full complement of de-pigmentation snps present in modern Europeans, although it had some...Pigmentation is a polygenic trait. As I've said ad nauseam, modern forensics tests used everyday by the FBI and other law enforcement entities (I've supervised these situations myself) tell us that a certain combination of snps is necessary for accurate predictions of European style "fair" skin or medium skin, or dark skin, for that matter.
It would be very easy to check for those who have such an interest in this topic: run the AG complement of pigmentation snps through the most recent iteration of these forensics tests and see what skin color is predicted. I'd be very interested to see the results.
Regardless, the discussion was about Mal'ta's physical phenotype and it's correlation, or not, with someone resembling Bjork. When the results were first published, I said that Mal'ta's pigmentation snps were like those of Melanesians, which is interesting given the discussion on this thread.
Of course, there are two caveats to all of this:
l. Perhaps the recovery of snps is not 100% accurate in these ancient samples.
2.Perhaps these ancient people possessed unknown depigmentation snps totally different from the ones present in modern day Europeans, and they are hiding somewhere.
Craig Venter's Racial DNA Hoax Liberals and Marxists opposed the Human Genome Project as being "racist" and tried to deny it funding. To counter this, Craig Venter claimed that there is no such thing as race and the DNA would be taken from each of the major human races, because race doesn't matter. Actually, the project would have failed if he had actually done this. He really just used his own DNA. This is explained in a biography called THE GENOME WAR, HOW CRAIG VENTER TRIED TO CAPTURE THE CODE OF LIFE AND SAVE THE WORLD, by James Shreeve. New York, Ballantine Books, 2005.
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