Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "Bell Beaker DNA: What Was the Genetic Makeup of the Culture that Changed Western Europe?" video.

  1. I think, as you stated, its important to emphasise that anthropological ethno-DNA science is in its infancy, as we are as yet making very general interpretations based on statistically insignificant numbers of examples. One of the big unanswered questions of the prehistoric period is 'Where did all the bodies go ?' There's a lot of people that respond to archaic history channels thinking they've got some sort of definitive ethnic/cultural bloodline from a swab test by companies that give wooly nebulous definitions of an individuals ancestry, without clarifying historical timescales, or that some DNA hangs around for a long time, whereas some 'washes' away fairly quickly even between living descendants and we don't know why. We all carry around bits of junk DNA that is totally recessive and will never effect our bodies, even down to the bacterial level. Some people (not all) read absolutes into these nebulous results because the numbers add up to 100% (lies, damned lies and statistics). We all know where genetic absolutes lead.
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  2.  @veronicalogotheti1162  Genetic theory has been around for a lot longer than that but unravelling the human genome is relatively new and the number of ancient bodies found is still infinitesimally small and good DNA from them is still not large, although getting scientifically better.
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  3. Homo Sapiens (modern humans) came out of Africa, that was long long before the topic of this video.
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