Your using "Middle-easterner" as a single racial term. Which is just silly. That is like lumping all Europeans the same. Well we do have some general ideas why phenotypes and how they could of formed, no one is stating it is a result of genetics. Haplogroups aren't something that should dictate...
Alpine and Iranid isn't "out-dated", Iranid(dolicephalic, hooked nosed, Meduim to tall in height, eastern Iranids usually refined, whilst western Iranids generally more robust). If it is outdated it doesn't explain why it is present in the middle-east. And Alpines are common all over...
Lol Kurds aren't all hairy and aren't gracile like their neighbours. Alot of Kurds are actually robust. In Northern Kurdistan(Turkey) Kurds are mostly of Alpnie or Irano-Alpine stock, usually fairer skinned but darker haired and eyed. In the southern-eastern and eastern part of...
Nope the component is strictly 'indo-Iranian', but they coined the term abit differently. Considering the caucasus as it's own component and so does 'east med'. Both probably relate to the pre-indo-european populations of west asia such as the Hurrians.
It's not meant to be "Median" marker. It is meant to be an 'Indo-Iranian' marker; they just termed it as 'Persian' for some reason. Hence why Bahrainis have a high percentage along with Turkmens, considering the Medes were never in Bahrain, but Persians were.
On dodecad calculator it is 4.5%, and 1.6% percent isn't nothing. It is quite significant for a west asian population. I really doubt Tajikis and Turkmens have a higher North western european component due to the soviet union, nor is there evidence that they mixed. I'm also unaware of any early...
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