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Most of the relevant personality traits are genetic or being largely fixed in early life. It is like having a higher predisposition for a specific cancer type: There is not really much youc an do about it. Personally I think longevity being overstated. More important is what you do with your...

"Sex education" became more and more a tool of "gender (mainstreaming) propaganda", LGBTQ+ ideology and general "sexualisation" of young peoples behaviour in much of the Western World. It heavily depends on the individual teacher, but the curriculum is not exactly helpful at all in many states...

Worth to mention the sample is quite small, by the way. This can easily skew results a bit, even though I'm sure they were lighter haired than say late Republican-Imperial inhabitants.

The Roman Kingdom and early Republic was still largely Italic-Etruscan and therefore had overwhelmingly Bell Beaker ancestry. Besides many prominent Roman personalities of that era were described as having lighter hair and blue eyes. E.g. Augustus was described as having lighter hair.

What's the definition of "Danubian" in the British context? Is it "Balkan & Danubian" (Central-Eastern to South Eastern Europe) or more specific?

The scaled coordinates with basic branch assignments as they were done by diplomatico...

It is polygenic indeed, but if I'm not mistaken there is one "main switch", namely HERC2/OCA2, SNP rs12913832. If you have other blue/grey/green eye variants, but not even one of those, you are highly likely to get brown eyes. To differentiate e.g. blue from green eyes, you need to use a...

We could also say Germanics, Arabs and Niloto-Hamitic people (the latter not covered here).

If we look at the Akbari samples, the most important sample by far is I41598, because he is the oldest known sample from around 1300 BC with a very interesting IBD sharing which is more than 90 % old Daco-Thracian in ancestry. The big issue with this sample however is, that its a singleton. Not...

Absolutely. Carinthians have not such a low Germanic level and Swiss have, especially in some areas, quite high levels of Germanic too. A bit problematic is to sort Germanic vs. Celtic out in many of these regions IMHO.

The interesting part about the Hacs samples with Southern European autosomal profiles is that they have remarkably low levels of non-Thracian admixture at first glance. A second E-V13 is also downstream of E-Z5018, under E-L17! Another branch which is very rare in the ancient DNA record and...

J-L283 is the most Illyrian haplogroup, just like E-V13 is "most Thracian", I-M253 and R-U106 most Germanic, R-Z93 most Iranian etc., etc.

To put things into context, here some data for E-V13 from FTDNA - this time exclusively based on BigY-testers, to keep things simple and comparable, since the FF tests don't cover a lot of important SNPs. Something about its limitations: This is based on the modern data. It is absolutely...

Looking at the different kinds and different levels of admixture already by 1300-600 BC, this quotation came to my mind again, which clearly points to structure if looking at the admixture in IA Bulgaria: Last common layer of all Daco-Thracians is Channelled Ware: Spread in the Transitonal...

I'm cautious to name them in any specific way, but they clearly have this tradition from the Neolithic-EBA, which shows in the IBD sharing. Perachora has already some Indoeuropean admixture on a low level, comparable to the levels in Gumelnita-Karanovo, which with they have some IBD sharing. So...