[blam]

GGG Ping.

[muawiyah]

Good catch.

[texas_mrs]

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[Verginius Rufus]

They say they have divided people into four large groups, and then give five names of areas...either their math is off or they are combining America and continental Europe into one group.

This could potentially be used to answer some historical questions about invasions. For example, in the Balkans, how much do the Slavic-speaking areas differ from the Greek, Albanian, or Romanian-speaking areas? That could help determine whether the Slavs settled en masse or just imposed their language on a pre-existing population, the way the Romans did in Spain.

[SunkenCiv]

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[PapaBear3625]

With respect to population genetics, previous studies have shown that SNPs correlate broadly with continental ancestry, dividing modern humans into four large groups: Asia, Africa, Oceana, America and continental Europe.

"Continents" don't have all that much to do with it. People from around the Mediterranean (African Egypt, Asian Lebanese, and European Greeks, Italians, and Spaniards) have much in common genetically, having interacted and interbred for thousands of years.

The people of India have more in common with Persians than they do with Han Chinese, even though they are both eastern Asians.