You know that the DNA samples we found were not randomly selected, right? It was not a double-blind ABX study. We found what we found. Stop trying to draw conclusions as to why R1b is missing. Maybe other samples will be discovered.
As Angela likes to say, we need more Ancient DNA samples
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Indeed I do.
The scientists don't get to choose what they find. Sometimes they're even lucky to get results of any kind from what they do find.
Now, with Britain, they have a good number of samples, and all show basically the same thing, elites and non-elites.
That isn't the case with these samples from Greece. We don't have enough of them from enough contexts to say anything definitively.
Fwiw, to the best of my recollection the male J2a everyone is discussing was not among the "elite". Neither was he in a trash heap so far as I remember. However, the female from the elite grave and the males all had relatively low "steppe". I think it ranged from around 10-19%. It's posted somewhere above.
Now, that might seem low for wholesale language replacement. However, do we yet know if they came directly from the steppe? No, we don't, and it doesn't seem likely to me. If they were already mixed, as was the case with the Central European Beakers who went to Spain, the replacement might have been, what, double that?
We know what we don't know. We just have to wait for the data to determine more precisely what happened.
Why people have to get heated discussing hypotheses like this which can't yet be proven is beyond me. It's not like anyone here has a job and reputation on the line.
That's why I often get a hint of bias from the responses, but hey, you want to argue, argue. It's good for the site.
Just keep it civil.
I must say, TBONTB, calling out other people for bias is a bit rich when you drag blonde or red haired R1bs and R1as at every opportunity. You even did it in the same thread. Clearly, irony is not your strong suit.