[blam]

"or is it a way of saying they have found a profoundly primitive human genotype, but lack the testosterone to say so?"

Most of the DNA studies dealing with ancients is usually done using mtDNA (the female line), this study apparently was done using the Y chromosome (male line) and in doing so an ancient population 'popped' up that otherwise would not have using the mtDNA. Am I reading this wrong?

[crystalk]

Virtually every word in this article is so tainted by political correctness and what can now be said out loud, as to make it convey no information at all. If it had just said "Hattentaten Taten taten," it would have been equally informative.

[Jim Noble]

The Y chromosome data gives different information because conqueror population males usually rape and impregnate conquered population females and not vice versa.

For example, Indian Brahmins result from Euro-Persian males impregnating South Asian females-their marriage and family customs have highly conserved the Y chromosome DNA but not so the mt-DNA.

Y-DNA and mt-DNA would only give the same information if matings between invader males and native females were equally likely as matings between invader females and native males-which cannot possibly be true.

Interesting stuff.