[Y-Indology] "Europeans"

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INDOLOGY, "Stephen Hodge" <s.hodge@p...> wrote:

>-- I posted to the old Indology list the

>results of a recent genetic analysis of European population

>published in Nature earlier this year (unfortunately I can't

>access the original msg/references now as they are on a dead

>computer).

 

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Stephen Hodge <s.hodge

European ancesrty

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I have just seen a report about an article has appeared in the

Science

magazine reporting the findings of research at Pavia University

(Italy) concerning the genetic origins of European and Middle Eastern

Males based on the inheritance of Y chromosomes.

Based on the results, it is hypothesized that nearly all males in

these areas descend from just 10 anscestral strains. Two of these

lineages are together thought to represent 80% of European males are

paleolithic c.40,000-35,000bp and probably originated in Siberia; the

other lineage arrived from the Middle East c25,000-20,000bp. The

remaining eight lineages are much more recent and are thought to have

arrived either from the Urals or the Middle East approx 9,000-6,000bp

and account for only one fifth of present-day European males. Food

for thought ?

 

Best wishes,

Stephen Hodge