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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o

The size of the country cannot definitely be ignored. At 87M, it’s on par with Germany and Turkey. On an area that’s vast and mountainous - almost 3x larger than Afghanistan. Experienced leadership is not replaceable immediately. I don’t think the decision-making has been in too many hands in...

Looking at the systematic elimination of Iran’s leaders and military assets (the extent of which is unverified though), one begins to wonder: - what will the Kurds do? - what will Turkey as the most powerful neighbour do? - will the Gulf countries and/or US try to occupy the other shore of the...

The authors were focused on sites with Rus (as they called it, actually Slavic) and Fenno-Ugrian culture, while Scandinavian relations and influence was only mentioned in passing. At the same time, it was expressly mentioned that a burial of Druzhina elite soldiers were Slavs. Contrast that to...

Full article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6.epdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6

Such clear clustering that matches with phenotypes kind of reinforces that the main difference between humans is based on how we look :) What we have seen very clearly through genetics, though, is that most groups blend into each other. Same with any type of clustering - it focuses on any...

The author has also translated Linear A inscriptions, but unfortunately he only publishes in IT publications/conferences…

The study is strictly morphological, but nevertheless interesting and controversial. It suggests the split of different Homo species was already 1 million years ago, instead of commonly accepted 500 000.

Editor’s summary It is now well known that there were at one time many Homo lineages. Understanding of the differences among these lineages is largely dependent upon crania that are rare and often damaged and deformed by age. Feng et al. reconstructed the 1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 cranium...

You might want to dive into the supplemental information of the first article, it has extensive chapters on uniparental markers, admixture and IBD clustering. The broad summary is that R1a and I2 proportions increased hugely with the slavic migration, but each analysed site has its own nuances...

R1a-M458 and R1a-M558 are named as characteristically Slavic. On the Baltic-Slavic split:

From the supplement to the first paper:

From the first paper (MP - Migration Period, SP - Slavic Period):

According to the “Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs” study (BAL - Baltic-like):