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- Poland
- Ethnic group
- Polish
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-L617
- mtDNA haplogroup
- W6a
In terms of mtDNA (maternal) haplogroups, we can divide humanity into at least 7 populations, which split from each other during the Paleolithic colonization of the world, after the "out of Africa" migration of humans. As the result of migrations which took place later (especially during the Neolithic period, the Metal Ages, and historical times), these populations started to mix with each other again. For example, West Eurasian hg-s migrated into Indian Subcontinent, and both West Eurasian and East Asian hg-s mixed in Central Asia.
Colorful descriptions below the mtDNA Tree show, which mtDNA hg-s colonized which parts of the world. Carriers of some hg-s colonized more than one part of the world; but if we divide these hg-s further into subclades, then usually we find out that carriers of each subclade originally colonized only one region (for example, Andaman Islands were colonized only by two specific subclades of M* and R*):
(I originally made it in Polish, so abbreviations don't match, e.g. East = Wschód; so WA = East Asia)
http://www.phylotree.org/tree/index.htm
http://mtdnaatlas.blogspot.com/2016/02/asia-has-five-mtdna-gene-pools.html
https://s32.postimg.org/w2ws3tq83/Expansion_of_mt_DNA.png
Colorful descriptions below the mtDNA Tree show, which mtDNA hg-s colonized which parts of the world. Carriers of some hg-s colonized more than one part of the world; but if we divide these hg-s further into subclades, then usually we find out that carriers of each subclade originally colonized only one region (for example, Andaman Islands were colonized only by two specific subclades of M* and R*):
(I originally made it in Polish, so abbreviations don't match, e.g. East = Wschód; so WA = East Asia)
http://www.phylotree.org/tree/index.htm
http://mtdnaatlas.blogspot.com/2016/02/asia-has-five-mtdna-gene-pools.html
https://s32.postimg.org/w2ws3tq83/Expansion_of_mt_DNA.png