Sardinia is genetically more similar to Italy or Spain?

[Mens-Sarda]

Sardinians aren't darker than South Italians imo. The ones I've seen were on the same spectrum. But you hardly find Sardinians like Abate or Eva Riccobono, blonde and blue eyed South Italians. The average is similar, the difference is that South Italians are more phenotypically varied, with more northern looking people and more MENA looking types. Sardinians are more uniformly Mediterranid.

The guy who said Sardinians are like Northern Italians never visited Northern Italy or Sardinia lol. Sardinians and North Italians look nothing alike.

You can also find blonde and blue eyed Sardinians like those you mentioned, it's not the commonest phenotype, but it's present (expecially in the central and northern areas of the island). The Sardinian's phenotype can be very diverse throughout the territory and also within the same families.


Classify these three Sardinian sisters with different look, they live in a village of north-western Sardinia, 20km from me :

Spoiler!

The Blonde (it's her natural hair color)




The Brunette



The Younger

[Kenshiro]

To my eyes it looks that people like Neapolitans, Calabrians, Sicilians and southern Italians in general are a lot darker than us.

it depends on the area, if I have to make a comparison between my area of origin (Gargano, North East Apulia) I have seen more light hair people compared to Sardinia, but if we are talking about Calabria or Sicily it is quite likely that they are darker, I would say area Sannio-Northern Puglia and Molise/Abruzzo are lighter than Sardinia but Calabria/Naples/Sicily/Basilicata and the rest of Puglia honestly i don't know, but the area between Molise and Puglia seems to be one of the areas with the highest percentage of yamanya according to haak et al, so I don't know
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My dna confirm this
Target: Kenshiro_scaled
Distance: 2.1457% / 0.02145706
40.2 TUR_Barcin_N
32.0 Yamnaya_RUS_Samara
18.8 TUR_Tepecik_Ciftlik_N
4.4 Kura-Araxes_ARM_Kaps
2.4 IRN_Ganj_Dareh_N
1.2 WHG
0.6 MAR_Taforalt
0.2 Jarawa
0.2 Nganassan
For me 99% of Sardinians can easily pass through Italy, especially in the central-south, also because Berid, Gracile med and Atlanto-med phenotypes are present also in Italy
Sardinia is a beautiful land, I am totally falling in love with its history and its ancient mythology, truly beautiful land and beautiful people