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Hmm? Nothing, man, only "musing" over the origin of my mtdna haplogroup. It's pretty little understood.
I agree that the haplogroup probably did not arise from Ashkenazi ethnogenesis, although the N1b2 subclade (which I believe is what you are referencing) probably did first arise in Italy or just east of there.
And what is the evidence that the Caucasus is the origin-point? N1b is rather old in the Levant, and I am not aware of any samples older than the Natufian individual who was found to belong to the haplogroup. It can actually probably be considered to be one of the subclades of haplogroups derived directly from "Basal Eurasians". That is speculation, but likely nevertheless. In turn, I believe one (or more?) of my precise subclade (N1b1b) was found among those Balkan Neolithic cultures (just east/southeast of LBK).
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