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> Findings indicate that Spanish, French and Italian populations received steppe ancestry from Bell Beaker groups, while Greek and Armenian groups acquired ance
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
> Findings indicate that Spanish, French and Italian populations received steppe ancestry from Bell Beaker groups, while Greek and Armenian groups acquired ancestry directly from Yamnaya populations. Their results are consistent with the Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian linguistic models.
It's always nice to confirm existing models.
It's so nice that it can make you wonder just how much the existing model informed the new result.
- Tagbert 2y agoObservations of linguistic similarities informed a hypothesis that some groups of languages are more alike than others. Data (genetics) is collected and used to confirm or contradict the hypothesis. Textbook science process.