Are the modern descendants of ancestral Europeans pure? A very dangerous question, with an even more dangerous answer. An answer so dangerous that it could potentially destroy western civilization as we know it. The European Union could possibly crumble and American politics would never be quite the same. This ideology has been around for centuries. The Nazis were fueled by it. White supremacy and racism are almost solely dependent on the fact that those of European descent are in fact "pure."
However, scientists are now finding evidence through DNA that could shine a devastating light on the actual lineage of ancient Europeans. Where did they really come from? To the shock of some, and to the delight of others, the scientists research revealed that the European continent has been a "melting pot" since the earth was covered in ice.
Their research suggests that today's modern descendants of ancient Europeans are a mixture of several different bloodlines. DNA from Africa, the Middle East, as well as the Russian Steppe, has been confirmed in Europeans living today.
Its been more than three decades since DNA studies solidified the commonalities of ancestral roots and primeval migration. The 30-year-old study states that most everyone who lives outside of the African continent can trace their bloodlines back to ancestors that left the continent more than 60,000 years ago. According to the study, the first modern humans migrated into Europe by way of the Middle East nearly 45,000 years ago. Their DNA suggests that they were of a dark complexion with light-colored eyes.
The Konya Plain in modern day Turkey was the birthplace of agriculture near the beginning of the Neolithic period. Within 1,000 years the Neolithic revolution had spread into southeastern Europe bringing a plethora of farmers and herders into the European continent.
From the Russian Steppes and eastern Ukraine came tribes of advanced nomads. These nomads known as the Yamnaya, were already using the wheel as well as wagons to follow herds around the grasslands. By 2800 BC, the Yamnaya had already ventured west, into modern day Europe.
Within a couple of centuries, other people with a significant amount of Yamnaya DNA had spread as far as the British Isles. In Britain and a few more places, hardly any of the farmers who already lived in Europe survived the onslaught from the east. In what's now Germany, there's a 70 percent to possibly 100 percent replacement of the local population.
The on-average results fail to reveal large regional variations: additional "eastern cowboy" genes in Scandinavia, additional farmer ones in Spain and Italy, and considerable chunks of hunter-gatherer DNA within the Baltics and eastern Europe.
The conclusion of the study suggests that all Europeans today are a mix. The genetic formula for a typical European would be roughly equal parts Yamnaya and Indo-European farmer, with a much smaller drop of African hunter-gatherer.
