10-24-2023, 06:18 PM
(10-24-2023, 05:56 PM)ph2ter Wrote: Distance
Distant methods are completely unvalid for the nearest kinship, because they reflect any garbage, and not the real attitude of the ancestor-descendant-stratum. That is, they reflect distant kinship, how many components from the common ancestor are left in the population. Already many times I was convinced of this, it is even much worse than formal statistics. Why do you think they do not use it in genetic research? Why do they use formal statistics, not distances? That's because it is very noisy and does not show real intimacy, it can easily show the proximity to the substrate. Fatyanovo and Sintashta had a common local substrate from local EHG, an increase in which shows a distant method.