Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "Ancient Ancestors: The Incredible Spread of Indo-Europeans…" video.

Now you really have opened a whole can of worms. This Agriculturalist/Pastoralist origin of (Proto) Indo-European has been a big bone of contention for philologists for decades and oddly enough the DNA evidence is still patchy enough to not give a definitive answer to which group had the greatest westward influence of genetics, culture and language. You did refer to something in passing that does absolutely fascinate me. The vast genetic replacement of over 90% of the, probably very sparse, population of Western Hunter Gathers by the incoming Indo-Europeanish peoples. Evidenced by other large scale population replacements, North and South America for example, are we actually looking at the most successful genocide in European pre-history or the introduction of a virus that only affected the WHG population. Simple removal of the WHG males from the gene pool wouldn't give such an overwhelming result. In the Orkney and Shetland Isles the matriarchal Celtic gene is still strong there. The Celtic woman were not removed from the gene pool, just the men. We basically have just as much Neanderthal DNA in us as WHG. What happened to them, as far as I know nobody is doing any academic research on this ???
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