Originally Posted by
thisismyaccount
And you don't wonder that scythian being common in europeans, their paternal haplogroups are basically absent in almost all europeans? Especially the fact that scythian ancestry comes from men?
Western scythians, especially mixing with local slavs, ended up closer to europeans compared to east scythians. So we can't tell alone from autosomal data if europeans got scythian ancestry or not.
But the fact that scythian haplogroups are even more common in tajikstanis than europeans in general says enough.
Scythians were insignificant in population compared to europeans. They wouldn't had contributed to europeans, especially west of Russia-Ukraine. This is basically why we see no scythian haplogroups
You seriously underestimate the importance of haplogroups.
They can help us determine ancient ancestry,
example: You have a Taiwanese group knowingly being descended from ancient chinese people.
But we also are aware of mongol presence in their lands at some point in history.
Those mongols are very close by autosomal data to ancient chinese ancestors. It gets hard to tell Taiwanese have this mongol ancestry or not. So we have haplogroups of these ancient mongols to compare with Taiwanese.
If they get them commonly or at least sometimes, we can tell mongol ancestry is legit. Just not how much mongol ancestry, could be 2-3%. Could be up to 20% mongol.
If no mongol haplogroups, then it become very clear there's no mongol ancestry.
This is same case with europeans and scythians. You understand now?
