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Humans have new Brain genes that gives it advantage over Neanderthals. This derived Brain gene, TKTL1, was not present in Neanderthals or Denisovans. It plays an important role in the Pre-Frontal cortex development, a region of the Brain responsible for higher cognition, abstraction, working...

Y DNA Q. Similar to Native American Y DNA

They were 75% Krem Czech UP related. U is the typical EEMH mtDNA. ANE were very mobile populations due to the terrain of the Mammoth steppe, maybe that contributed to their relative sucess. Most other HG population were geographically quite limited hence the higher genetic hetrozygosity between...

You are right. Neanderthal Y DNA was replaced by AMH Y DNA after 180 Kya (so before the Eemian). But prehaps true behavioural modernity fully developed shortly after that mixture event in AMH in East Africa during the late African stone age.

Prehaps this explains why Humans replaced Neanderthals after 60,000 KYA

BACK TO SCIENCESHOTS SCIENCESHOTSEVOLUTION Modern human females and male Neandertals had trouble making babies. Here's why Findings come from first detailed analysis of Neandertal Y chromosome 7 APR 2016BYANN GIBBONS SEBASTIEN PLAILLY/SCIENCE SOURCE SHARE: Twitter Linked In Facebook Reddit...

Crown Eurasians like Onge, Melanesians, Papuans, Orang Asli have Afro hair and some similar facial features but are divergent from SSA genetically than modern West Eurasians aswell hS having higher levels of Eurasian Archaics than Europeans

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Mesoamericans were Agriculturalists since 8000 BP. Most Native Mexicans lived in Cities or farmsteads in the 14th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/visual-reconstruction-of-mesoamerican-cities-and-structures.2078877/ Infact, Native...

Iran_N had R2 and BMAC plenty of Q which was probably from BMAC farmers admixing with the previous Keltiminar culture WSHG

Actually we have got ancient W. African samples. See the Shum Laka paper. There were ancient Cameroonian aDNA extraction. Seems that West Africans today came somewhere more nothern because the Shum laka are very different from modern Niger-Congo/Bantu Speakers living in the same region. They...

Strange map. Do model this with EEF? EEF probably eat up some of the affinities of WHG in Western Europeans. Brits usually have 14-16% WHG ancestry

Highlights ? European HGs diverged from SW Asian HGs during the LGM ? Low genetic diversity of European HGs is due to a strong LGM demographic bottleneck ? Ancestors of western early farmers emerged after repeated post-LGM admixtures ? EFs strongly diverged from SW Asians during their expansion...

The Cucuteni Tripolye culture did use much metallurgy though they had very sophesticated lithic culture. Steppe population obveriously did interacted with Neolithic SE European cultures looking at their 10% Anatolian farmers but balkan/Cuceteni cultures were not the only cultures they interacted...

Also it does not fit with what we see in the archeological record. Its clear the steppe population had technological diffusion from the south that give it a technological lead over other groups. The spread of the pastoral economy and the usage of Arsenic bronzeware coupled with ceramic types and...