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Less extinction of y-chromosomal lineages in East Asia?
Topic Started: May 9 2016, 05:57:27 AM (252 Views)
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My guess is that lots of North Asian lineages vanished. So I'm IMO not talking about a generally EEA phenomenon. Now, could there have been sample bias in the paper by Poznik et al.?* And if not, what kind of lineages did East Asian societies manage to preserve? How would you describe them ethnically and socially? The findings might be interesting in an ethno-sociological context.

I feel reminded the fact that non-white men are tendentially at the bottom of social hierarchies in Europe when they cannot move back to the countries of their respective ancestors. Furthermore, I remember that "tolerance" still seems to be a big issue in public European discourses. So what exactly could East Asian societies different from European ones concerning social integration and diversity of social survival strategies? Maybe something subtle in premodern times? With whom would a fully Caucasoid or SSA Westerner who studied ethnology and sociology (or something comparable to that) try to make friends if he wanted to establish the presence of his lineage in China, Korea or Japan? (South Asian Hindu would actually be better. But I so far never heard or read about cases in which such a man went to East Asia in order to establish his lineages there.)

Since I did not read the article myself, I'll give the link to Razib's comments on the new paper by Poznik et al. ("Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences")...
http://www.unz.com/gnxp/the-invention-of-slavery/

* (We possibly already know many their samples from earlier studies. My first thought was that they could have been cherrypicked. Plus, some of them could be contaminated to the extent that y-chromosomal diversity was inflated. Remember the East Asian samples which were once reported to be in hg R1b-M73+ but which seem to have been ignored in a follow-up study!)
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