Gene Study Identifies 5 Main Human Populations

New York Times ^ | 12-20-02 | Nicholas Wade

[Cronos]

Linguistically, they _are_close to Estonians and Hungarians, but, at least as indicated by Y-Chromosome haplogroup frequency, they are genetically closest to the Saami, Lithuanians and Estonians. They are fairly close to Swedes and Norwegians, but closer to Indian Uttar Pradesh Rajputs than Hungarians.

Huh??

[SunkenCiv]

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[hellbender]

Finnish & Hungarian are indeed part of the same languistic family, but I once read that the two are about as similar as English and Iranian, which are both Indo-European languages. Finnish & Estonian are indeed very close. Also, Finland was rather heavily influenced by Sweden for centuries, and its elite was partly Swedish, I think. For example, the name of Finnish composer Jan Sibelius sounds Swedish, not Finnish.

[hellbender]

There are other relatively small ethnic groups scattered around Russia, including the Urals, who speak Finno-Ugrian languages (or used to). There is a high proportion of blondes among the Finns I've seen, although many look quite different from Scandinavians. Most Hungarians I've seen look much darker. Some think the Magyar invasion of central Europe was accompanied by some Turkic ethnic elements.

[fishtank]

"Scientists studying the DNA of 52 human groups from around the world have concluded that people belong to five principal groups corresponding to the major geographical regions of the world: Africa, Europe, Asia, Melanesia and the Americas."

(1) Noah
(2) Noah's wife
(3) daughter in law #1
(4) daughter in law #2
(5) daughter in law #3

Hmmm.....

[SunkenCiv]

[Pharmboy]

Where did the bad punctuation and grammar ("more commoner"???) come from, Pharmboy?

It was "much commoner" rather than "more commoner" but "much more common" would have been better. Poor editing...[sorry it took so long to get back to you].

[SunkenCiv]

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