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From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] RE: Dupanloup paper (an I question)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:42:12 -0400
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I am far from being a dna expert, so let me ask these questions relative to
the idea that y-haplogroup I expanded into Europe as part of the same
Neolithic Expansion that brought J, E3b and G. Those groups are all found in
the Middle East today, but I in Europe is differentiated into a number of
different haplogroups and subclades that seem to me to be quite varied
(correct me if I am wrong). Isn't the I found in the Middle East and in the
Caucasus the old, undifferentiated I? How much of that is there to be found
in Europe? Aren't the European I haplogroups (I1a, I1b, I1c, etc.)
conspicuously absent from the Middle East? Aren't they pretty uniquely
European? Maybe I'm wrong on that?

Correct me if I am wrong, but don't these things argue for a pretty long
residence in Europe for y-haplogroup I? Longer than the relatively brief
span since the Neolithic Period?

Rich

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