Talk:Genetic history of Europe

Adams et al. (2008) unproven judgements?

The reference included in the section "Bibliography", by Adams et al, on religious intolerance and gentics in the iberian peninsula,from Am J Hum Gen is just terrible. Its title clearly indicates an aim outside the scope of a Journal on Human Genetics, and it contains many imprecissions and unproven judgements. No description of the sampling technique is included in the article, and even the ballot surveys describe how they choosed the sample in their data. From the description of "spaniards rueld by 300'000 visigoths" a negative judgement can be inferred, but the goths never ruled the spaniards, they just started acting as state powers when the Roman authority that hired them to be part of the roman army in exchange of being allowed to have shelter inside the roman empire borders,as some other peoples attacked them, when the roman authority faded goths found themselves as the only organized power,and started acting in acordance with their authorities, the romans allowed the goth's authorities to be preserved inside the roman army, and with their own rules. No imposition at all existed in this. The paper speaks about religious intolerance: goths changed their orginal religion, arrianism, to catholicism, in order not to enter in conflict with the rest of spaniards, but many times the facts linked to other religious groups arriving into Spain, some times forced,as some people of jewish orgin may have arrived to Spain forced by the romans,others as invaders, there were several cases when moslim authorities tryed to force christians to endorse moslim faith, or accept Mohammed as a prophet;some catholics become saints when they were killed because of this, and that probably is against the moslim rules, that stablish for the Islam a respect for "The people of the book", jewish and christians,the book named in this being the Bible. Some cases of jewish being blamed for religious violence existed,for example the case of "Santo Dominguito del Val", the history telling that young was crucified, and the expulsion of jewish in 1492 was founded in a supposed declaration of some of them of trying to "Put down the law of Jesus and stablisihing the rule of Moshes law"; even when the descendants of the kings that made the expulsion were ruling, many jews returned years after the expulsion to Spain, and there's no record of them being bothered again. The article uses the word "pogrom", a word of polish origin, but no records exits of violence in Spain specially focusing on jews, and if it was some, it was never worse than violence from some spaniards against other spaniards. The article in Am J Hum Gen speaks about some 20% of today's spanish males having jewish Y chromosome markers, and if it's taken into account that the same article says that at the time of expulsion, jewish were just 4% of the total population in Spain, the growth of this people from 4% in 1492 to 20% of today clearly speaks about no discrimination, at least. The authors have doubts about why the 20% is maintained all over Spain but in the island of Menorca. This island was for some time an english island, and either people of jewish ancestry moved to the british islands looking for a richer environment, or they were chased by the britons. This article in Am J Hum Gen seems containing a lot of propaganda, but from who,and with which goal ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.22.49.96 (talk • contribs) 14:47, 5 November 2011‎

I dared to clarify the headline of this by far to long-winded contribution.HJHolm (talk) 14:14, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

About İmprove to Article

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Sock edits

I have totally reverted the inclusions of the IP sock of WorldCreaterFighter. Kind of East Asian supremacist. See:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/WorldCreaterFighter

He is the same as the IP commentary above, who tried to further vandalize the article but was reverted and reported by another user, which resulted in the protection of the page. Any help to revert his vandalism is appropriated!Whhu22 (talk) 09:39, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Molecular Genetics

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 August 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kedens2018 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Kedens2018 (talk) 00:26, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

This article needs to be substantially rewritten and improved.

The article has a very heavy emphasis on outdated methods of analysis -- especially Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis from living individuals. Moreover it provides a sloppy summary of different kinds of approaches with very little coherent synthesis.

Our modern understanding of European genetic prehistory is based mainly analysis of autosomal data from ancient DNA samples. This article would be greatly improved if it could be rewritten to reflect modern approaches and delete outdated approaches to analysis. Tenrec (talk) 00:16, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

The main problem is that someone needs to work on it. When the article started the academic literature was mainly focused on those out-dated approaches. There was a big restructuring a few years back which made them less dominant, but if anyone has time it could indeed do with a new review. If you don't feel confident about editing yourself can you make any concrete proposals? --Andrew Lancaster (talk) 07:40, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Yes, that makes sense. I think the first and easiest thing to do would be to delete a bunch of material and reorganize what is left to make it more coherent and more steamlined. After that it needs some more up-to-date references. I can try to find time to help with this, but I hesitate to over-promise. Tenrec (talk) 21:41, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Remember you can post newer materials here on the talk page while you are working out how to use it. --Andrew Lancaster (talk) 19:03, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

The opening sentence does not parse

I'll try to explain some of the problems with the current opening sentence. The genetic history of Europe includes information around the formation, ethnogenesis, and other DNA-specific information about populations indigenous, or living in Europe.

• around looks to me like something written by a non-native speaker. The meaning is not clear here in English. Should it be "about"? If so, then note that there is another "about" later in the sentence.
• formation of what? You can't just have formation on its own like this. If it is referring to the formation of ethnic groups or something like that then the wording is clearly a mess.
• ethnogenesis, and other DNA-specific information Ethnogenesis is clearly not DNA-specific information. Ethnogenesis involves the coming into being of new ethnic identities.

Why not something like this? The genetic history of Europe is studied by looking at the available evidence for long-run, large-scale changes in the genetic characteristics of different populations who have lived in Europe. Andrew Lancaster (talk) 18:52, 1 October 2024 (UTC)