Basal Eurasian discussion

[TanTin]

In regards to the qpgraph model in the OP, it frustrates me to no end that authors do not conduct basic sanity checks when performing these. The 36 unit drift edge leading to Iran_N (~twice their OOA bottleneck!) is bogus, Iran_N are the least bottlenecked population in West Eurasia at that time. To correct that issue would change the whole structure of the graph.

I am afraid that  we will have  to change the  whole structure  and to find new some new terminology. 
Because the idea of Basal is not covering well the existing models and also by using this terminology we can't describe the existing migration lines, that we can see in the real data. 


I just notices another confusing term:   'northern route' .
There is OOA Northern route / OOA Southern route ( you may see it on the picture in the first post here).
And there is " Northern route" proposed to explain  postglacial migrations of modern humans into East Asia. The general term for  Northern route  is more related to the continental migrations inside Central and North Asia, than SW Asia.  

I will have to stop using "Basal" as it doesn't fit in my models with its current meaning.