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Son of the Atlantic
It seems to me ANE were pred C y DNA(maybe??) , I dont think y DNA I (western)Hunter gatherers migrated from the steppe , since east Hunter gatherers were massivly R1 , this lineage(R1) being also the one that likely originated in central Ásia/east Europe .All J folk found in the steppe had their distant paternal origin somewhere in modern kurdistan /armenia , Yamnayas had caucasian Hunter gatherer dna lets not forget, likely some male lineages survived among them ,this j1 being one example probably and another one being my haplo J l283(not yet found among Yamnayas althought found in bronze age kabardi o balkaria).
The I2a found among Yamnayas suposedly is because of a west tô east migration that happened migrations in that direction also happened wich explains western DNA in eastern Hunters.
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