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Which European component do you find most interesting?
As everyone may know; Europeans genetically speaking are a three-way breakdown between Steppe, Neolithic and WHG/Hunter gatherer ancestry:
Steppic ancestry:
Responsible for modern day Indo-European language families/derivatives today. Pastoral in natural; brought with them was patrilineal traditions, mastery of dairy farming/lactose persistence mutation, mutations for blue eyes, red hair, blonde hair, etc. Came from the Steppes during the Bronze Age from the East that changed the landscape of Europe in its own right. Brought its own phenotypical strains that are peculiar to populations with high Steppic ancestry such as Nordids and Eastern Mediterraneanids (Pontids, etc.). Best modern day proxies for this ancestries being Eastern Europeans, etc.
Phenotypes peculiar to Steppes most likely being somewhere along the lines such as this:
Neolithic ancestry:
Responsible for bringing their mastery of agriculture, societal intricacies/developments, sedimentary lifestyles, etc. Known mutations they brought was light skin, dark hair/eyes, etc. For European derived Neolithic ancestry peculiar to Europeans specifically; came from Anatolia that dispersed along land and Maritime routes through Southwestern and Southeastern Europe that spread throughout Europe during the Early and Middle Neolithic. Phenotypical strains peculiar to high Neolithic ancestry being possibly Mediterraneanids (Atlanto-Mediterreans/"Atlanto-Meds"), Alpines, Dinarics, etc. Best proxy being Sardinians , etc.
May have looked something like this:
Hunter Gatherer ancestry:
Akin to being named "Old European/Europe", for good reason, preceding the Neolithic and Bronze Age time periods. As their name suggests, mainly maintaining a hunter-gatherer/scavenging lifestyles and tribalism. Diet consisting of an omnivorous diet between berries/plants and meats. Indigenous to the European continent, eventually adopted agriculture from Neolithic peoples from the early Neolithic onwards. Mutations peculiar to them being, blue eyes, dark hair, swarthy light brownish skin tone (WHG), light skin, eyes and blonde hair (SHG and EHG), etc.) Modern populations with the most preserved HG ancestry being Baltic populations such as Lithuanians, etc. Phenotypical strains being possibly more Cro-Magnon/CM oriented such as these:
Despite the hypothetical approximations, which component/history of each time periods interests you the most?
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Originally Posted by Norb
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