What if the Black Sea didn't exist?

What if the Black Sea didn't exist?

In this scenario, the caucasus and carpathians nearly merge into eachother creating a giant mountain/hill range. How does this affect history.

u/Natural_Use_948 — 1 hour ago
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Qpadm's of Modern Mena Populations on Illustrative

These were from the aadr and ho. All were done using illustrative's software.

Very cool to see how nw africa is sort of its own thing with libya between it and ne africa/sw asia, the levant, and then northwest asia. Was surprised how far ssa went in populations up to the levant and not just muslim ones, although the historically muslim ones had more ssa hg.

u/Natural_Use_948 — 4 days ago
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Postseason Offensive and Defensive Epa of Superbowl Winners Since 2010-11 Graphed

u/Natural_Use_948 — 7 days ago

% of East Eurasian Dna in ethnic Turkish People by Region of Turkey

The sources are multiple qpadms done on different wesbites by different people using averages of multiple test samples of ethnic turks in said regions.

Note east eurasian=/medieval turkic. Medieval turkic people had some west eurasian ancestry and seem to be closer genetically to modern kazakhs or eastern tatars than say, Mongolians or Northern Chinese ethnicities. The % of medieval turkic ancestry in regions would be higher than this.

Obviously take the very small samples from smaller areas and such as less representative.

u/Natural_Use_948 — 7 days ago

I've found 23andme's general grouping for west eurasians.

This is through qpadm but I found what basically matches their guidelines. This is based on people who are 100% of the ethnic population in the database. I am saying "you" but I mean the ethnicities themselves.

This doesn't apply to part west eurasian recently mixed groups like ados and mixed latinos.

If you have western hunter gatherer, western hunter gatherer+eastern hunter gatherer at over 15%, and anatolian neolithic farmer above 25%, along with zagros neolithic farmer+caucasus hunter gatherer under 30%, you are european.

If you have natufian hunter gatherer, no north african hunter gatherer, and zagros neolithic farmer+caucasus hunter gatherer above 30%, along with eastern+western hunter gatherer under 25%, you are west asian.

If you have north african hunter gatherer, and no eastern or western hunter gatherer, or at least not over 5%, you are North African.

If you have aasi(ancient ancestral south indian) over 10% or so, and aasi+west eurasian over 50%, you are south asian.

If you have sub saharan african hunter gatherer over 30% and north african hunter gatherer, you are a "dessert" african(this applies to somalis, eritreans, and certain other groups). I don't know a term to say not North African, but not sub saharan.

If you were not mentioned here and majority west eurasian, you are either a uralo-turkic ancestry in north or central asia, a north caucasian, or some ethnic jewish mixture, and this will probably lead to you getting a mix with two or more of west asian, european, and central+north or east asian, in your results.

Just something cool I found out.

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 7 days ago

Illustrative DNA Qpadms of Human Origins Pubjab and Balochi Samples

A lot of people asked me for the qpadm results I talked about earlier. I am getting used to eastern south asians and middle easterners south of urartu are troubling, but I've done most of northwest asia past the levant, most of europe, and western south asia.

Punjabs indeed do get a lot of steppe evidenced by their very high ehg compared to other south asian groups.

Also don't trust the site "dnaplotter", someone showed me results of it giving Punjabs western hunter gatherer.

u/Natural_Use_948 — 9 days ago

Highest European Founding Components in qpadm

According to illustratives samples with aadr and human origins populations in qpadm.

Highest whg-basques 17.64. Lithuanians and several east and northern europeans get close, no latvian samples they may hit this. In g25 latvians often get the most, illustrative doesn't seperate ehg and whg.

Highest ehg-34.42 regular estonians(there is a more northern estonian sample with a little bit of east eurasian dna, this one is more similar to a latvian), latvians and maybe swedes are higher. A set of yaghnobi pamiri mixes also got very high ehg in tajikistan, uralo-turkic groups like saami, maari, and some northern russians and scandinavians got a lot to. Mordvins, who are closest to where ehg was formed it seems, get the highest ehg in g25 but only around 30 in qpadm.

Highest anf-61.52 sardinians. It is well known, unlike the other groups, that sardinians have the highest anf as they get this on nearly every calculator. Now they don't get the overpowering 70 or 80+ results like they do in g25 or illustrative, on illustrative's qpadm, but still a lot.

Highest CHG-northern megrelians 30.15. Sadly no svan samples in aadr or human origins for comparison, these 2 groups often rival for the highest chg, svans get the most on illustrative, although illustrative struggles to seperate chg and znf for caucasians.

Highest ZNF-Mazandaranis in Iran, 43.39, they also have the highest znf+chg on earth and are the only group in the aadr or origins I've seen get over 40 znf. Balochis also have nearly 40 znf and are over 50 znf+chg. Illustrative gives makranis the most znf at over 50, and again, struggles with aasi, chg, and znf.

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 9 days ago

South Asians Do Not Have the Highest Zagros in the World

Before I write, I don't reveal my ancestry on reddit, but this is not a hate post against south asians or some "northwest asian supremacy" post, just stating facts from a qpadm I did.

I often hear that either punjabs, makranis, balochis, or brahuis have the highest zagros in the world and see people confused as to why, given zagros is from iran. On illustrative dna and g25 makranis often score the highest zagros in the world. I was doing qpadms starting with europe but started doing northwest and south asia as well.

I want to mention that yes, balochis do have the highest znf in south asia, and are higher than nearly all persian groups and kurds, on illustrative's qpadm they score 39.11(makranis also get over 36). But central persians seem to score the highest znf on earth, specifically mazandaranis from Northern Persia on the caspians coast, who score 43.39 and also have the highest znf+chg at 56.75, balochis are the only other group I have seen score over 50, getting 50.75. Balochis still score 22.16 aasi but get a bit less kotias and especially anf than mazandaranis do as well as no natufian.

I think there is an issue with illustrative and g25 when it comes to chg, znf, and aasi in these steppe+indus populations, including bandaris in iran, who have a huge south asian share on qpadm larger than nearly all pakistanis.

This admixture makes sense considering the difference between persians and most of these western pakistani groups, while not large by any means, is similar to that of western tatars or udmurts to estonians, where there is a strong component(I don't know if aasi is east eurasian yet, I've seen people say it is west and that not a ton is known about it) in decent amounts in the other group, versus say the small distance between finns and estonians, where said component is in much smaller amounts.

I often see people downplaying aasi in pakistanis and northwest indians, as if they are just the finnish to baltic equivalent to persians, which is not the case. I see people asking why northwest indians, while lighter than southern, tend to be darker than persians. The funny thing is, punjabs actually score slightly more steppe than kalash, but in turn have decently more aasi and are a bit darker on average. The lightest people in south/central asia, are the pamirs and yaghnobs of tajikistan, who can often pass in the balkans and have a similar genetic makeup to northeast caucasians, they have a bit of east eurasian, but tend to score little to no aasi.

Point being aasi is a noticeable share of pakistani and northwest indians ancestry and distinguishes south asia from northwest asia.

It's also annoying there are no modern afghan groups in the database, would be cool to see a qpadm of an afghan with chg znf ehg anf aasi and maybe east eurasian.

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 9 days ago
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Qpadm's of Caucasians on Illustrative DNA

I was doing Europe and surrounding qpadms and got through the caucasus fast. These were all the modern samples I could find across their aadr and human origins databases. Note adygei_1 could be modeled with natufian as well but all the other north caucasians could not without the signal being too weak, and dagestanis+chechens with the exception of kumyks rejected both whg and natufian. It makes me think most of the North Caucasian groups after mixing with yamnaya had very weak faint traces of natufian from maykop/kura araxes, etc. Some takes and points

1.)Sorry they didn't have many or well labeled Georgian samples, same with Armenian, would've liked to see some Svans or Khevsurs. With that being said, it is clear South Caucasians are a sort of offshoot/alternate of Northwest Asians like Kurds, Turks, and Persians, not a European group. They are probbaly a bit more similar to most Europeans than Arabs, but definitely match up better with levantines and especially Kurds, Persians, and Turks.

2.)North Caucasians( barring Nogai who I will address) are similar to ashkenazi jews and ethnic turks west of the bosphorus. Most of them are very West Asian shifted but have a clear European component and are very distant from arabs, if Northern Europe is high whg+ehg, Southern is high Anf, north caucasians are like the high chg+zagros variant of the others.

3.)Nogai really seem like caucasian tatars genetically, and no I know Nogai are turkic people and not just an offset of tatars, I am speaking in how they mirror eachother. Nogai North of the caucasus in Astrakhan seem like eastern tatars, high east eurasian component and not as much west eurasian. The nogais in karachay Cherkessia and the westernmost tatars in western tatarstan are alike in that they have higher east eurasian dna than surrounding groups, but have a strong west eurasian base, which mirrors slavs and mordvins in west tatars, versus mirroring north caucasians in karachay cherkessia nogai. The Nogai samples from Stavropol and the tatars in central tatarstan plot between the 2 other groups, but certainly closer to the highly east eurasian ones.

4.)whg in the north caucasus. I have seen that Corded Ware, which had some whg, made it to what is modern day North Ossetia, and assumed this was the whg source. However I noticed that chechens and dagestanis, except for kumyks, don't get it, and kumyks were said to have come to the caucasus later on. This makes me wonder if mixing with medieval slavic groups may have led to the whg input, where as chechens and dagestanis, who seemed to be the first very hardcore muslims in the region, wouldn't have mixed. But those are my 2 hypotheses on how whg arrived.

5.)Just something i was surprised by, but populations in eastern Turkey, ashkenazi jews, and southern italians seem to have higher natufian ancestry than even south caucasians. I assume they might have more basal eurasian than north caucasians as well.

6.)It is clear pontic greeks were originally a greek group that came to the southwest caucasus, judging by their huge anf. They are still however, quite close to hemshin armenians, laz, and trabzon turks, all those groups are very related. Maybe not as much as g25 thinks but they are certainly close.

u/Natural_Use_948 — 11 days ago

What Happened to Brantley Gilbert?

He was big from 2011-18 or so if I remember. I listened to the radio one night and heard a song that sounds like some new kid made it, but the voice sounded somewhat like his, check, and it's him.

Did he relapse or something?

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 11 days ago
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Qpadms AADR1240k European and Similar Illustrative

1.)Yes I did a standard neolithic, no wshg or anea. These were all performed through illustrative's Platform.

2.)These were only samples in the aadr, next I will do the human origins.

3.)For some groups of highly mixed laitnos, ehg+whg is probably better to use, they are just better modeled with whg only due to minimal steppe.

u/Natural_Use_948 — 11 days ago
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NFL Defense EPA of Quarterbacks' Teams With minimum 2 deep(nfccg/afccg) Runs Since 2002 in Regular and Postseasons of Said years per rbsdm.com

u/Natural_Use_948 — 16 days ago
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Colonial White Americans South Asian Question

Do any colonial white americans get south asian, or does the timeline not match up and south asian is exclusive to british people with relatives stationed in India, pakistan, and Bangladesh after American Independance?

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 17 days ago

Why doesn't the Northwest Caucasus Produce Many Combat Athletes?(Ossetia Excluded)

I am mainly talking about Karachay Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai, Kabardino Balkaria, and Adygea.

I know Nikita Kucherov is from there and a great athlete but he's a hockey player.

Whenever I see fighters from the caucasus it is 40% dagestan 15% georgia 15% azerbaijan 10% chechnya 10% armenia and like 10% ossetia+ingushetia. I never see elite mma fighters or wrestlers from these places.

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 18 days ago
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With the Colorado Avalanche Getting Swept in the Western Conference Final, The 2014-15 New York Rangers Retain a Funny "Loser" Record

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 24 days ago

What if Hector Salamanca's relative at Don Eladio's killed Mike, Jesse, and Gus in the Gun Fight

I forget if it was his nephew or grandson, but it was his last living relative. I wonder how this affects Walt in America given he was terrified with Gus threatening him at the time.

Let's say hypothetically this guy wins the gun battle and kills all of them, what happens then.

I am assuming Walt lays low and eventually after los pollos workers say they haven't seen Gus in ages, Walt may realize something happened. We don't know what Lydia knew at this point and Gus is a non factor. I don't know how Walt without Mike's experience could manage to get in touch with anyone, or if he would even want to stay in the business.

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 25 days ago

The 3 Geniuses of Prison Break

I remember a quote from I think Vince Gilligan about how breaking bad/bcs had 3 geniuses, Walt, Gus, and Lalo, and prison break seems to be the exact same.

You have the main character Walt/Michael, the antagonist for most of the series who is always a pain to keep up with Mahone/Gus, and then the crazy psycho who is always a pain to shake T-Bag/Lalo.

For all the focus on T-Bag in specific with his "durability", he has an inate sense and does multiple genius things, like using the tracker for the money, the therapist fake identity, handcuffing Michael in the car, etc.

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u/Natural_Use_948 — 29 days ago