I can't say much about southern Italy. I only know a few articles and Vahaduo/dodecad calculators. In them the 'Atlantic Mediterranean' component (which I believe is EEF + WHG ) is considerably higher in iberia, Sardegna and northern Italy than in the South, but I don't know if this apparent...
Hunter-gatherers and farmers have been in Europe for at least seven thousand to five thousand years. In that time it is possible that variants have emerged without needing ANE for this. Nothing prevents farmers living in northern Europe from developing other pigmentation variants as well since...
I don't need to explain something I didn't say. I didn't say that light hair arrived in Europe with EEF (you who seem to have the belief that modern variants must have a direct relationship with ancient genetic drift.)
I said that modern variants may have emerged more recently and when the...
I agree with you. It is a common western marker throughout western Europe. It is also very common in northeastern Europe, but heavily mixed with EHG. WHG gets weaker in southern Europe (mainly outside of Iberia.)
I may have expressed myself badly. I didn't mean that you generalized ANE being blonde, I meant that the variant in that individual is probably not the same variant causing blonde hair in Europe today. There are several different variants and I think it's likely that they emerged in Europe...
By which route did WHG reach Europe? Why does it appear to be so far removed from all the other ancestors of eurasia and western asia ? Is the distance explained by a long period of isolation?
Sorry if the answer already exists and I didn't find it.
Well said. The overwhelming majority of Jews are dark-haired, with a blonde/redhead minority. There are even blond Palestinians, they are a minority, obviously, but they do exist.
Lighter pigmentation has a much more recent selection. I think there were some blonde/redheaded individuals between ANE and EHG, but I believe this trait was only relevantly selected for much later than that. I believe it was specially selected in northeastern Europe. There were also blond and...
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