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The Fertile Crescent
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The Root of Our Civilization
There seems to be a different major haplogroup to be prevalent in each of four sets of populations that occupy distinct geographic regions and belong to different linguistic branches of the North Caucasian family spoken by the Caucasus populations. The haplogroup frequencies correlated with geography and, even more strongly, with language. Within haplogroups, a number […]
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Distribution maps of autosomal admixtures in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa
The following maps were created based on the K=12 admixtures from the Dodecad Project, except the Gedrosian and Caucasian maps, which are based on the K=12b admixtures, and the Red Sea map, which is based on the K=10a admixtures. The ‘West European’ admixture from Dodecad was renamed ‘Northwest European’ on Eupedia, as it fits better the overall […]
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Diversity of Major Cultivated Plants Domesticated in the Near East
Our fathers planted gardens long ago… Whose fruits we reap with joy today; Their labor constitutes a debt we owe… Which to our heirs we must repay; For all crops sown in any land… Are destined for a future man. Arab Poet – Nizami Introduction Alexander von Humboldt was probably the first author to refer […]
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