Minoans were closer to Turks and Turkish Jews than to French and Spanish people. Guess what this means? 🤡

[GigaBautista]

Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia - PMC

The island of Sardinia has been of particular interest to geneticists for decades. The current model for Sardinia’s genetic history describes the island as harboring a founder population that was established largely from the Neolithic peoples of ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Minoan BA-Spaniards: 0.019867476
Minoan BA-French: 0.022351628
Minoan BA-Turkish Jew: 0.017103485
Minoan BA-Turkish: 0.01902729

 

[GigaBautista]

BTW, they're closer to Lebanese as well.

0.019633358

 

[romanstock]

It says Sardinia. Weren't the Minoans on Crete or summin?

 

[GigaBautista]

It says Sardinia. Weren't the Minoans on Crete or summin?

The study is on Cretans, but there is FST data for various ancient and modern Mediterranean populations.

 

[GigaBautista]

The study is on Cretans, but there is FST data for various ancient and modern Mediterranean populations.

*Sardinians. My bad.