![]() But when you begin to discus ethnicity, which is more about common ancestry than national origin, both Turkish and Anatolian are acceptable ethnic designations. With that in mind, you are correct, when referring to nationality, there is no such thing as Anatolian. To answer your question, first remember above that those labels above were the opinion of the maker of the system, not scientifically meaningful designations. We do not tolerate racists and/or bigoted comments on this site. Note: Please keep all comments civil and focused on the map. Notice anything else interesting about the map? Then leave a comment below: Almost all of Europe speaks IE languages yet the haplogroups are so diverse. Interestingly enough, the R1a haplogroup is found primarily around the Proto-Indo-European homeland and in India, so in the case of that particular haplogroup there is a definite correspondence between descendants of Indo-Europeans and the haplogroup.īut the case of R1a is the exception not the rule. They are what the original creator of the map assigned as ethnic labels to haplogroups, but are just plain misleading as haplogroups are haplogroups and nothing else.įor example I’ve seen this map used to argue “Poland is more Aryan than Germany”, which makes no sense as the R1a haplogroup isn’t an Aryan haplogroup, it’s just the R1a haplogroup. To clarify, those labels have no scientific meaning. I wish those labels would go away on this oft-reposted map. Iceland only has significant numbers of people from 4 different haplogroups.Īnd just so people don’t take the map too seriously, here’s what reddit user tigranater commented when the map was posted on reddit:. ![]() The Balkans is probably the most genetically diverse region in Europe.However, Austria and Hungary look remarkably similar. Austria and Germany despite both being German speaking, have quite different Y-DNA groups.While Finland shares some similar background to the Baltic states, it’s Y-DNA groups are quite different from the other Nordic countries.The British Isles have much more common with people from France, Spain and Portugal than they do with people from Scandinavia.The map does highlight some rather interesting things. While we there may be differences between some of us, we are all equal. Moreover, it should obviously not be used to imply that any country is better than any other. The map above is only based on Y-DNA, thus only shows male common ancestors not female ones. In humans, haplogroups can either be based on Y-DNA which is passed from father to son or mtDNA which is passed from mother to offspring of both sexes. These groups each share a common ancestor and can be one way of looking at the genetic makeup of a population. The map above, created by, shows the genetic makeup of European countries based on Haplogroups.
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