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Those members here who are interested in such matters for knowledge....it seems the Europeans master race especially Northern Europeans are at least 10% related to (or descended from?) Native American Indian like people from as far away as middle of Brazil..
HOW EUROPEANS GOT TO BE ~10% AMERICAN INDIAN
How Europeans Got to Be ~10% American Indian
Some extracts from above web link:
All European populations, to a varying degree, exhibit admixture from Karitiana but in Northern Europe the effect is stronger than in Southern Europe. The admixture also affected the populations of the Caucasus (Adygei). Some populations (Orcadian, Cyprus) evidently underwent genetic drift that caused the frequencies to drop (p. 83, Table 7). And the authors could have used any South or Central American Indian population to the same effect (p. 45). They did due diligence and collected Z scores on samples with 13 different ascertainments (Table 8) and 6 different outgroups (Table 9, which is incomplete without New World monkeys) but the results did not change.
So, properly speaking, the authors discovered*“Amerindian” admixture*in Northern Europeans but because of fear of coming across as light-minded, they decided to call it “Northeast Asian.” Science has definitely lost its steam over the past centuries. Imagine if, upon seeing the evidence of the earth’s triple motion, Copernicus would not have proceeded to write*Commentariolus*but instead concluded: “I do not of course think that the Earth can possibly rotate around the Sun.” This kind of safe judgment on the part of the astronomer would have likely stalled the evolution of scientific thinking in Europe by a couple of centuries.
Patterson et al.’s “shock” is also somewhat disingenuous because this “Amerindian admixture” was first reported 10 years ago by Rosenberg et al. (2002) (see below).
Although Patterson et al. (2012) report that Northern Europeans are primarily affected by this Amerindian admixture, they acknowledge (p. 44-45) that Sardinians harbor the same admixture at lower frequencies:
“We caution that if the Sardinians are themselves admixed with Asian ancestry although less so than other Europeans (a scenario we think is historically plausible), then we will have underestimated the Asian-related mixture proportion in Europeans.”
HOW EUROPEANS GOT TO BE ~10% AMERICAN INDIAN
How Europeans Got to Be ~10% American Indian
Some extracts from above web link:
All European populations, to a varying degree, exhibit admixture from Karitiana but in Northern Europe the effect is stronger than in Southern Europe. The admixture also affected the populations of the Caucasus (Adygei). Some populations (Orcadian, Cyprus) evidently underwent genetic drift that caused the frequencies to drop (p. 83, Table 7). And the authors could have used any South or Central American Indian population to the same effect (p. 45). They did due diligence and collected Z scores on samples with 13 different ascertainments (Table 8) and 6 different outgroups (Table 9, which is incomplete without New World monkeys) but the results did not change.
So, properly speaking, the authors discovered*“Amerindian” admixture*in Northern Europeans but because of fear of coming across as light-minded, they decided to call it “Northeast Asian.” Science has definitely lost its steam over the past centuries. Imagine if, upon seeing the evidence of the earth’s triple motion, Copernicus would not have proceeded to write*Commentariolus*but instead concluded: “I do not of course think that the Earth can possibly rotate around the Sun.” This kind of safe judgment on the part of the astronomer would have likely stalled the evolution of scientific thinking in Europe by a couple of centuries.
Patterson et al.’s “shock” is also somewhat disingenuous because this “Amerindian admixture” was first reported 10 years ago by Rosenberg et al. (2002) (see below).
Although Patterson et al. (2012) report that Northern Europeans are primarily affected by this Amerindian admixture, they acknowledge (p. 44-45) that Sardinians harbor the same admixture at lower frequencies:
“We caution that if the Sardinians are themselves admixed with Asian ancestry although less so than other Europeans (a scenario we think is historically plausible), then we will have underestimated the Asian-related mixture proportion in Europeans.”
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