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Because they are the smartest, the most creative and most educated people in the country, generally speaking.

You are on a casp of childish bidding war. "No, no, my red button is bigger!"

I'm not sure about volcanoes. There would need to be series of explosions of supervolcanoes to do so much damage for years. So far we can't find them. To me it always looked like natural climate cycles as a base, then volcanoes can make it worse, but are more coincidental than a main cause.

You are over analyzing. What is the most popular bread in Near East? Where farming was born. I don't think it is a sourdough. New food doesn't agree with people for a long time, but after few thousand years of eating the new we develop genetic mutations to make the best of it. That's how...

Important too, and are leading force behind us becoming farmers. Carbs from starches from wheat, corn, potatoes and rice. Farmers love them, hunter gatherers not that much. Give Inuit/Eskimo high starch/sugar diet and they will become fat and half population will develop diabetes. Health of...

Hey, it's not that bad,....yet. :) I think it is as bad as it gets. Well, give it 20-30 more years for developing countries to catch up. From that point on things will improve. Energy will be clean we'll clean up environment of what we damaged, and technology will save us at the end. Dirty...

Don't forget about the true first communes, which were the small hunter gatherers tribes. Millions of years of evolution in simple communal environment made a genetic imprint in us. That's why there's so much attraction in it for us and constant going back and trying it again in various forms.

Sure, communism wasn't invented yet. My point was that all above mentioned were "terrible leftist ideas" at some point.

We have to distinguish two aspects of the left/socialism/communism. One is economy and production which was a disaster. The other being the social contract, the equality under the law, inclusiveness in rights and duties, democracy with its protection of human rights and minorities...

It makes sense. Let it be an important history lessen for all the vegetarians. ;) What it was to become a human.

You can get fat on anything, it's just that sugar is a very simple, easily digestible fuel source loved by all plants and animals. It's good for you, but exercise moderation. :)

It's only true very roughly speaking, I think. What I noticed is that one's body will not necessarily take all, digest all food, if it doesn't feel it needs that much. So we should talk about calories digest and not calories eaten. Otherworld calories digested = calories eaten - calories...

Are your parents from same region of Spain? If yes which one, please.

I'm glad you share my conclusion. I went where the numbers has lead me. With time and more samples we will know better.

East African might be the Muslim/Arab invasion plus some noise level. It also pops up in South Italians and Malta. West African countries like Libya and Morocco have it at 10%. South Indian is probably all noise and it lingers in few European populations without historical connections...

How modern Spaniards and Portuguese came about. Let's assume that in Early/Mid Iron Age all Iberians looked genetically like today's Basques. The question is what genetic/migratory events produced today's Spaniards and Portuguese? I played with numbers for some time yesterday and this is the...

I've run samples through modeling and found the best fit for Modern Basque. It's pretty close, I took the average Bronze Age Iberian and mixed it with Bronze Age Steppe, sample from Samara 2000 BC, but it is similar to Sintashta and Andronovo. 70% of Iberian Bronze and 30% of Steppe Bronze...

I just noticed how Basque samples, I have, are so much different than modern Spanish and Portuguese ones. Europeans # of samples S-Indian Baloch Caucasian NE-Euro SE-Asian Siberian NE-Asian Papuan American Beringian Mediterranean SW-Asian San E-African Pygmy W-African South France hrvclv...

Thanks guys, it would be nice to have more samples from Spain. Anyone else? I have 7 from Portugal but only 2 from Spain, and already somewhat different than Spanish "default" in Harappa.

Many commissions dedicated to finding excesses in presidential election came back empty handed, but this survey has found millions illegal immigrants voted?!!! Something is way off whack here.