Originally Posted by
Agrippa
In all studies, not just that of Polako - Finns deviate strongly from most other Europeans and so so in a Sibiroid direction.
You might sugarcoat this fact this or that way, but fact is, Finns AND Lithuanians have a very strong "old European component", but Finns have more Sibiroid influences and Lithuanians more Neolithic.
Now even if percentage wise Finns would have very slightly more of the "old European component", Lithuanians would be still closer to them because the Neolithic-Southern component is closer related to "old European" than Sibiroid.
Even a very minor Sibiroid contribution will result in a stronger deviation.
That is like comparing one who is quarter Sicilian with one who is one eighth Negrid. The admixture in the quarter Sicilian might be higher percentage wise, but since the Sicilian component is much closer to North Eastern European than Negrid, the deviation in the Negrid admixed one eighth person will still be larger...
So it is with Finns, principally, which is why Lithuanians are better for being used as an example for "old European", even if saying the Neolithic and later coming Indo-European components are stronger in them.