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Plant based foods will generally be easier to cultivate than animal and they alone create the possibility of generating surpluses which is why civilisations developed only after the adoption of farming which is primarily cultivation of plant based foods (wheat grasses, rice and maize) and...

I'm very worried about it. The risk of catastrophic climate change under certain scenarios discussed in many IPCC reports should spur action by humanity to at least buy itself some insurance. Yet we remain relatively inert and calls for such action are dismissed as hysteria. This is an issue...

Thanks for these findings which suggest cultural diffusion of horse domestication rather than demic diffusion of horse riding pastoralists, and their horses. Focusing on male ancestry only, I was under the impression that my L151 ancestor traced back to early CWC of around 3000BC in modern day...

I would have thought that horses were more relevant to roaming pastoralists than to sedentary farmers such as the EEFs who spread west from Anatolia before the late Bronze-Iron Age yamnaya 'invaders', a theory that will be hard to crack until more evidence comes to light. An interesting...

Then that's a big Oops for LivingDNA! try another company that has a bigger reference population database for autosomal tests (Ancestry for e.g., not sure about FT DNA but both were accurate for me!)

I reckon income and education will play an important role (the 2 are also highly correlated) - if average incomes and educational opportunities are lower in the southern states (where obesity rates are higher), obesity will tend to be higher given the particular effort you need to invest to...

I wouldn't be too surprised about that finding given human migration in general and specifically in your deep ancestry within the British Isles. DF-13 is a subclade of R-L21 which is a typical Atlantic modal haplogroup and very highly represented in the British Isles (especially western most...

I agree that ‘wokism’ lacks a strong scientific foundation. It is mostly theoretical conjecture and its arguments are difficult to test in practice. It has gone quite far beyond philosophical discussion over important issues touching on racial justice, policing, and the manifold dimensions of...

thanks - very useful comments here on these 'Illyrian' samples!

I could also imagine that Greek settlement before Roman conquest around modern day Provence (and certainly Marseille) would have left a footprint - there's a bit of J2 haplogroup in France (circa 4%) and much of around the southeast. It's a common haplogroup in modern day Greece and southern...

Thanks Tomenable for that PCA chart - entirely consistent with all my ancestry results which show a predominantly Iberian peninsula (deep) ancestry even though my ancestors up to 6 generations back were all from south-western France, Pyrenees and a few in north western France. The mtDNA...

Thanks for your helpful reply! I still find these archeogenetic matches quite confusing - but the specific samples for my Illyrian matches are 13313B and 13313C - there's no mention which haplogroups these particular samples carried. The genetic distance is also measured at 9.99 but matches...

Thanks Hawk - so more related to the Bronze Age expansion rather than early farmer. Thanks for filling in an information gap!

Hi, my LivingDNA results were not unexpected; Iberia 62% Basque 20% France 16% 2% It largely concords with other companies I've used which also identify a very strong south western European Atlantic ancestry. 23andme was significantly less granular, identifying 95% Spanish ancestry and 5%...

Here are my results Iberian 92% (France - Nouvelle Aquitaine) (North-east Spain - Catalonia) English 7% Central Asian 1%

I don't want to paste the long list of my ancient population and deep dive matches but my closest ancient populations turn out to be Visigoths and Illyrians. The latter match is based on skeletal remains dated to around 1600BC and found in present day Croatia (specifically the Veliki Vanik...

Hi fellow R-Z209 - I think this subclade maps to R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a1

Thank you for the update - greater diffusion of DF27 up to Poitou-Charentes is interesting although not too surprising as I would have thought DF27 would be highly frequent in French Aquitaine - I wonder if there's enough data to break the analysis down into downstream subclades - I'm R-Z209 and...