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MarkoZ
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I wrote Proto-Caucasoid (= ancestral to Caucasoids), not Caucasoid.
Well, that's not what the 'proto-' affix usually indicates. If K14 showed no independent morphometrical development towards the Caucasoid type, he wasn't a Proto-Caucasoid. These labels become meaningless if we don't examine every single specimen individually.
No I didn't. Crown Eurasians = all of Eurasians except for Basal Eurasians.
Google returns a blog and a few forum entries for 'Crown Eurasians'.
But then I was talking about a K14-like population ("K14 minus Basal" folks), not specifically about K14.
No you weren't. You said K14 belonged to a population that was ancestral to most Eurasians.
If that is where his "Basal" came from, then yes.
Had Basal Eurasians expanded from Arabia, along the coast through India, all the way to South-East Asia?
There is a hypothesis about "Southern Migration" and "Northern Migration" routes into Eurasia after the OoA.
Maybe descendants of Basal Eurasians migrated along the southern route, and of Crown Eurasians to the north.
No, it's precisely the opposite. Both C and F radiated out of South-East Asia after CF migrated out of Africa. Most Eurasians derive their ancestry from this migration. Tellingly, K14's C-M130 still exists in significant frequencies in Australia and India. He must have picked up his Basal Eurasian component further west or north.