[BenLurkin]

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[BenLurkin]

"The expansion of the Bell Beaker culture (named after their pots) appears to have been a key event, emerging in Iberia around 2800 BC and arriving in Germany several centuries later," says Dr Brotherton. "This is a very interesting group as they have been linked to the expansion of Celtic languages along the Atlantic coast and into central Europe."

[bigheadfred]

Thanks for the new link--Nature Communications

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[Jude in WV]

This is very interesting. I sent the link to my daughter. She is a genetic scientist.
I don’t know how many of you study history from the bible, but this goes right along with it. Noah’s flood was to have occured 4-5000 years ago. There were major changes after it. Man’s lifespan was drastically shortened after the flood.

Also, all life died except Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Only the animals in the ark were saved. Noah’s family repopulated the earth. Also, they started out from Turkey, just as this article says. Lots to think about.

[Jude in WV]

This is very interesting. I sent the link to my daughter. She is a genetic scientist.
I don’t know how many of you study history from the bible, but this goes right along with it. Noah’s flood was to have occured 4-5000 years ago. There were major changes after it. Man’s lifespan was drastically shortened after the flood.

Also, all life died except Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives. Only the animals in the ark were saved. Noah’s family repopulated the earth. Also, they started out from Turkey, just as this article says. Lots to think about.

[Colorado Doug]

unexplained genetic turnover about 4000-5000 years ago.

Interesting. They will be saying the same thing in another 5000 years, wondering how it became all Arab and North African.

[eldoradude]

and signs of an unexplained genetic turnover about 4000-5000 years ago.

Sounds like an invasion...or maybe just an influx of 'immigrants'.

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[Pharmboy]

The actual abstract from the original article is much clearer than the phys. org. piece (no blame to you, BL, just stating the fact). The abstract:

Abstract•

Haplogroup H dominates present-day Western European mitochondrial DNA variability (>40%), yet was less common (~19%) among Early Neolithic farmers (~5450 BC) and virtually absent in Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Here we investigate this major component of the maternal population history of modern Europeans and sequence 39 complete haplogroup H mitochondrial genomes from ancient human remains. We then compare this ‘real-time’ genetic data with cultural changes taking place between the Early Neolithic (~5450 BC) and Bronze Age (~2200 BC) in Central Europe. Our results reveal that the current diversity and distribution of haplogroup H were largely established by the Mid Neolithic (~4000 BC), but with substantial genetic contributions from subsequent pan-European cultures such as the Bell Beakers expanding out of Iberia in the Late Neolithic (~2800 BC). Dated haplogroup H genomes allow us to reconstruct the recent evolutionary history of haplogroup H and reveal a mutation rate 45% higher than current estimates for human mitochondria.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Black Plague (sorry...Plague of Color) probably had a pretty big effect of the genetics of Europe.