On Persians and Indians
Quote Dodona Human Diversity Project:
Re-read my post. If you do, you'll see that I said that both Indians and Persians were mixed--but that Persians were far less mixed. Far, far less mixed. Persians are 96% Caucasoid, with only about 4% Mongoloid admixture. Indians, by contrast, have very little actual Caucasoid dna. The only ones who do in large measure are the upper caste Indians in the North, and the highest it goes up is about 30%.
When you factor in the other billion Indians who are not in the upper caste, that 30% rate drops down to something--on a national level--of 2% Caucasoid dna and 98% Asiatic and Austroloid.
I, too, used to lump India into the "Caucasoid" nations--until I read the dna studies. They really have remarkably little Caucasoid dna.
Persians, by contrast, cluster genetically with Europeans. Common sense would make one assume that Persians would be genetically like their neighbors. They're not. They don't cluster with Iraqis or Pakistanis--but with Greeks, Italians and other Euro-Meds. In fact, on a genetic map posted on this very website, I was shocked by how close the Persians clustered to the English and Dutch.
They're (Iran) like a European country thrown into the middle of Central Asia.
Very strange.
But it's true.
Re-read my post. If you do, you'll see that I said that both Indians and Persians were mixed--but that Persians were far less mixed. Far, far less mixed. Persians are 96% Caucasoid, with only about 4% Mongoloid admixture. Indians, by contrast, have very little actual Caucasoid dna. The only ones who do in large measure are the upper caste Indians in the North, and the highest it goes up is about 30%.
When you factor in the other billion Indians who are not in the upper caste, that 30% rate drops down to something--on a national level--of 2% Caucasoid dna and 98% Asiatic and Austroloid.
I, too, used to lump India into the "Caucasoid" nations--until I read the dna studies. They really have remarkably little Caucasoid dna.
Persians, by contrast, cluster genetically with Europeans. Common sense would make one assume that Persians would be genetically like their neighbors. They're not. They don't cluster with Iraqis or Pakistanis--but with Greeks, Italians and other Euro-Meds. In fact, on a genetic map posted on this very website, I was shocked by how close the Persians clustered to the English and Dutch.
They're (Iran) like a European country thrown into the middle of Central Asia.
Very strange.
But it's true.
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