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"The group likely responsible for the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European languages did not share the same genetic makeup as the Yamnaya. Instead, it descended from a distinct but related population, which they identify as the Caucasus–Lower Volga (CLV) group, preceding the Yamnaya and forming part of the earlier expansion of Indo-Anatolian speakers."
The IE Urheimat shifts south of the Steppe.
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#Paleogenetics #AncientDNA #IndoEuropeans #Anatolian #Yamnaya #HumanGenetics

Linguistics and Nonsense · The Genetic Origins Of The Indo-Europeans – Lazaridis et al. (2025) – InsightsThe paper titled ‘The Genetic Origins of the Indo-Europeans’, was published in Nature in 2025. It is authored by Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, David Anthony, David Reich, and others …

If you like thinking and learning about human prehistory, you'll like this interview with geneticist David Reich. Two hours on what research tells us about human origins, how modern humans relate to Neanderthals and Denisovans, ancient DNA, ancient epidemics, admixture, how genetics informs archaeology, and the spread of the Yamnaya from the steppes.

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The divide between modern humans and our Neanderthal cousins keeps shrinking.

' People with Neanderthal genes didn’t abruptly vanish, Akey says—their offspring just acquired more and more modern human DNA. “They were overwhelmed by waves of modern humans extending out of Africa,” he says. “The modern human population eventually absorbed the Neanderthals.” '

#paleontology #HumanGenetics #anthropology #Neanderthals

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