You presented one anomaly out of a sea of contrary evidence, so it’s not that I can’t take it it’s just that I’m not interested in posting 100 more articles about what I’m talking about than your one
It’s sherdog mate, if you want to pretend that Dagestan is Turkic and has been inhabited for 800 years that’s your choice, enjoy yourself
Actually, he may have something, in a broken-clock-is-right-twice-a-day sorta way. The problem is the language.
The "turks" in this case are people from the steppes. But not the Mongols from 800 years ago and certainly not folks from the Ottoman Empire or after. We're talking about people who invented the chariot 4000 or 5000 years ago. They took over pretty much all of Western Europe and their genes mostly replaced those of the people who had lived there before....
....according to a test which follows
female genealogy. That's a very important caveat. Because the prevailing theory is that these invaders came in and mated with the locals at much higher numbers than the local males (instead of, say, immigrated peacefully and interbred).
What he also doesn't say is that this is not the first time genes changed dramatically. It had happened at least twice before as well.
Much is still unknown, because dna testing of this type that is inexpensive enough to be used often is only a decade old.
David Reich has a great book on it called "Who we are and how we got here", but it's possible that his findings last year are already half outdated.
But none of that shit matters. The most distantly related modern humans have more common dna than any 2 AKA pure bred dogs, even those that are considered close cousins.
