Originally Posted by
Myanthropologies
Back to the topic on that. Sikeloit actually discovered the Jordanian thing like two hours ago in a thread and got all "JORDANIANS ARE CLOSER TO SICILIANS THAN KURDS AND ARMENIANS ARE LULZ! SICILIANS IZ LEVANTINE! " (no.offense Sikeliot, you're amazing, but you got too carried away lol). Most Sicilians can be modeled as Spanish + Lebanese, or North Italian + Lebanese, so I'm sure most Sicilians are not genetically closer to Jordanians or even Palestinians than they are to Spaniards. Also, most Sicilians are genetically closer to at least one balkan group (be it Albanian, Bulgarian, or Romanian) than they are to any Levantines. However, Sicilians are a diverse bunch. I've seen some oracles that scored Saudis and Egyptians in their top 20 at only 17 distances. However, those Sicilians always came up as Ashkenazis and Sefardics first (one time even as Tunisian Jewish first), so we can assume that those are VERY outlying samples (or maybe just a shitty calculator).