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Modern day Scandinavians are closest genetically to Yamnaya, which again, does not make sense if Yamnaya were not light skin light eyes.Ok, so say that these yamnaya are 100% r1b and 100% brown eyed and darker skinned than any pure white and move to ireland.
So how do you become 90% light eyed from that? The best you can hope for is to kill off the whole population of local males and take all the females, while bring none of your own. At best that could make you 25% light eyed since brown is dominant. And it could never make you 100% light skinned.
Basically there are two big light skin genes almost everyone in europe has and definitely 100% of north europeans have. These guys have one of them at 100% levels and the other at 0% levels. They also have 100% 'wrong' mtdna. The same kind of mtdna the udmurts have btw.
It's completely impossible to go from yamnaya to modern white populations and preserve that huge level of r1b in places like ireland and basque territory with simple mixing. It would have to be selective. But we know it's not selective because we can test that and the time is way too short.
But at the same time corded ware is around and they are much whiter. It is also twice as big of an area.
Archaeologically speaking yamnaya and corded ware are at the exact same time. You could easily find that corded ware came first, they are so close. So it's not unreasonable to think that a similar find to the one for yamnaya could be found to the west if they actually ever dug there (and tore up a shitload of cities lol) and that this similar group more to the west would actually turn out to be fully white already. Which completely blows yamnaya idea out of the water.
And that makes more sense anyway because why would r1b leapfrog over r1a like that? Just to confuse us? And how would they do it and then get so much larger numbers than r1a in a short time? It doesn't even make any sense. And even if they can do all that how did they avoid taking any r1a with them on the way?
So anyway, this theory can be true, but the timing is off by 10k years if it is.
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