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My friend recently did a DNA test with Family Tree DNA and his ancientOrigins results came back with him being 50% Hunter Gatherer, 39% Neolithic Farmer, and 11% Eastern Steppe Herder. This was surprising to me because I was under the impression that the percentage of European hunter gatherer...

How do we know that it started in Siberia? Is it because we’ve only found one skeleton with basal R* and that’s all we have to go off of?

Bear with me for a moment, as strange as it sounds, can we rule out the fact that environmental factors might cause samples in the same geographical area to decay in the same manner? Not my argument but an argument that I’ve heard.

DNA decays over time. A Harvard trained geneticist had this to say about DNA decay: “In the lab, even if we stored DNA in a −20° C manual defrost (i.e., non-frost-free) freezer, we would discard DNA samples that were over a year old. Beyond a year, the DNA samples gave unreliable and...

I’m having trouble finding a clear answer on the internet. Did the Y-haplogroup R originate in Central Asia or in Siberia? There’s all sorts of information about different subgroups and where they might originate, but what about the first R?