England is rich enough of ancient samples that you can do very precise models using very proximate samples. I can for instance try to model modern Scots using late bronze age Scots and neolithic Scots, as well as an iron age Swede as a proxy for Germanic ancestry. The result is that modern Scots only require ~5% of neolithic Scot ancestry to improve the model a little, so yeah, the replacement looks fairly real, with 80% of their ancestry from the bronze age. Of course, this isn't to say bronze age Scots didn't have farmer ancestry, but that essentially came from mainland Europe.
more like Europe, though something similar likely happened there too
Anthony Adams
One agument, though, is that there are less ydna lines in Europe (I, R, G, and J) than there are xdna lines in Europe (H, V, K, T, I, U, and X). Probably because xdna recombines (2X becomes 1X) every generation.
Dominic Sullivan
I actually learned from there too Mergeit (compared to plink) takes only the SNPs used in both datasets and removes duplicates I use plink to remove samples (I tried West Eurasian samples) but mergeit seemed safer (because plink gives duplicate SNP error) I got a better PCA when I used mind 0.3, but it removed most of the ancient samples
Paleolithic is not Nordic. Nordic race is Indo European. See this
Paleolithic Europeans were cro-magnids. Anthropologists such as Coon were right that Scandinavians (Hallstatt Nordids) are blend of Corded Nordics (Pastoralists from Indo European steppe) + Danubian Nordics (depigmented farmers in Northern, Western and Eastern Europe) theapricity.com/snpa/index2.htm unz.org/Pub/MankindQuarterly-1976apr-00257
Blondism and blue/ice eyes evolved during paleolithic Europe. It is "Nordic".
Xavier Richardson
We do not have any proof of it
Jace Scott
FAKE NEWS Africans bacame dark. Europeans didn't become lighter.
Elijah Reyes
Logic is enough to come to consensus. If thread is not ded later I will be back.
Noah Rivera
Doubt. Probably SHG paleolitic + stepe amalgam. Fair hair is most common in strong HG populations, like Estonia. But it is just my view. And of course, how we define "nordic". Fairnes or skull index? Think both. DC from Yamna, fair hair from HGs.
