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From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Neolithic J2 and E3b in Britain? Maybe not.
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:31:53 -0600
In-Reply-To: <000601c6fe9a$ee0fa820$6400a8c0@Ken1>
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Ken Nordtvedt
> Because (old) I1b comes with three such different subclades
> within --- Dinaric, Western, Isles --- any variance/age
> estimate based on using the entire (old) I1b population will
> have lots of pseudo-variance produced by the modal
> differences between these subclades.
Yes, but that is exactly the point. The subpopulations of (old) I1b differ
so greatly as to indicate an advanced age for the haplogroup as a whole. A
more specific hypothesis would be that I1b predates the most recent Ice Age,
and that its differing subpopulations reflect differing refugia.
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