Who Are Western Europeans? New Study Reveals True Origins

If you found this interesting and want to dive deeper, I recommend 'The Horse the Wheel and Language' by David Anthony. The book is an intellectual tour de force, yet easily approachable. Integrating linguistics, genetics, archaeology and vigorous academic debate within and across the disciplines, startling conclusions emerge from seemingly intractable starting positions and thin, unreliable evidence.

Well written, interesting article overall, but saying "Reveals True Origins" isn't the best way to communicate scientific research (too strong)

Sounds like a pop-sci summary of complex issues.

Throws things around like 'no living descendants' of Neanderthals, except for half of us that still have their genes? What else does it take, to be a descendant?

And 'left the caves' which is a folk story. We have evidence of really ancient peoples in caves, and evidence of more modern ones everywhere. Why? Because 'they left the caves'?

No, because older evidence outside caves degraded because, well, they weren't in caves which are stable cold-rooms for preserving whatever is in there. Include perhaps some exceptional individuals who chose to go there (and die there). No reason to believe there was any special cave-preference at any time in history.

Anyway, I quit reading there.