I’ve expanded my dataset of human mtDNA to include 14 Greek genomes, and 16 Turkish genomes. The results are interesting given the historical animosity, and violence, between Greeks and Turks, in that they are very similar people. In fact, the main reason I’m writing this note is because the Turks are closer to the Greeks genetically, then the Greeks are to themselves. That is, the match score between Greeks and other Greeks is lower than the match score between Greeks and Turks. Intuitively this sounds suspicious, but it actually makes perfect sense –

The Greeks are closer to the broader set of Europeans (and others) than they are to themselves, implying a heterogenous population of global people, including Turks. That is, the Greek population plainly includes a significant number of people that are basically identical to people that live in Turkey, and are ethnically Turkish, though they’ve likely forgotten this, and instead identify as Greek. Recall, all the genomes in my dataset are diligenced to ensure that the person in question is e.g., ethnically Chinese, as opposed to simply located in China. So in this case, all of the Turkish genomes are from people living in Turkey, that are identified as ethnically Turkish, and the same is true of the Greeks. Below you can find the distribution of 99% matches between the Greeks and everyone else (left), and the Turks and everyone else (right). As you can see, they’re similar populations. The population acronyms can be found at the end of my paper, A New Model of Computational Genomics (e.g., TK is Turkish).

In order to refine the analysis, I produced a third chart (below) that shows the difference between the match scores for each population, to get a better sense of the difference between Greeks and Turks. All I did was literally subtract the Greek match score for a given ethnicity from the Turk score for that same ethnicity, causing the range (i.e., y-axis) to vary from -1 to 1, though as you can see the differences are extremely small, and are instead bounded by -0.1 and 0.1 (i.e., 10%). This tells us that the distribution of global blood lines in Greece and Turkey are very similar (i.e., within 10% of each other), and you can see my earlier point, that the Turks are more Greek than the Greeks, in that the match score between the Turks and the Greeks is higher than the match score between the Greeks and the Greeks. And again, this makes perfect sense, if a large number of people with Turkish ancestry live in Greece, and nonetheless identify as ethnically Greek, due likely to forgotten history, which is obviously possible.

 

That said, you can see there are differences, just going in order, in that the Turks are closer to the Italians and the English. Moreover, the Greeks are significantly closer to the Basque (a group closely related to Northern Europeans), and the Turks are significantly closer to the Georgians. Further, the Greeks are significantly closer to Icelandic people (and all the other Northern Europeans) than the Turks, and this is really strange when you consider the fact that the Turks were part of the Axis Powers, despite the fact that they’re plainly not as close to Northern Europeans as the Greeks. Yet somehow, the Greeks were occupied by the ostensibly racially pure Axis Powers, in particular the Italians, who are obviously closer to the Turks genetically. It seems like WWII does make sense, it’s just the complete opposite of the public narrative sold by the Axis Powers. As a general matter, Nazi ethnic ideology is obviously complete nonsense, and the Europeans are unquestionably heterogenous people, and the Northern Europeans in particular, are arguably the most heterogenous people on Earth, with a mix of African, Asian, and European ancestry.

Consistent with this revealing analysis, the Northern Europeans, in particular the Danes and Norwegians, were also sent to concentration camps, despite not being Jewish. And not to pump my own work, but I’ve already researched this history thoroughly, so you can read all about it in the Afterword to my book VeGa. Though the numbers interned might seem small (there are plenty of links to primary sources in VeGa), keep in mind these are extremely small countries, by population. This is also consistent with the persecution of the Basque people during WWII, who are closely related to the Northern Europeans. It sounds insane, superficially, but I think the purpose of WWII was the annihilation of a group of people that all appear to be related to Europeans, including of course the Jews. I think this continues to this day. Common sense asks, who the Hell would do that? I think the answer is the Catholic Church, an institution that ruled Europe with an iron fist for almost two-thousand years, only to have Martin Luther, Henry the Eighth, Napoleon, and ultimately the U.S. marginalize the Catholic Church to the point of near irrelevance. And the Church was obviously involved in the Nazi Party from day one, and moreover, is also obviously involved in extremely high-level organized crime. My hypothesis is that the Church was going broke, science was obviously taking over, leaving the obedience the Church sought after for uneducated, unproductive people, who don’t have the money to support their extravagant lifestyle. To put it bluntly, they never cared about religion, the Church was and is a political and economic institution, so when Catholicism stopped paying the bills, they turned to crime, and I’m not joking at all, read God’s Bankers.

Amazingly, I came up with a Nigerian character for VeGa, who’s best friends with a Swedish guy, and as it turns out, the world being what it is, the Igbo people of Nigeria are extremely closely related to some Swedes, and seem to have identical histories as well. The Igbo people were of course also subject to genocide, and might have been targeted by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. This character was not intentionally created (i.e., I came up with the character long before my work in genetics), and it doesn’t mean that people should use science as an excuse to be scientifically racist, and only friends with people that have your genetic lineage, even though this would produce a remarkably diverse world. The point is instead that the world is so complex, that things that sound stupid and racist, are probably stupid and racist. That said, it’s pretty obvious someone has it out for a very specific group of people, that is superficially diverse, but all seem to come from Asia. Moreover, there’s some support for the claim that the Nazis were using rudimentary genetics to select people for extermination. This would allow them to discern among e.g., Jews and Gypsies, killing only some of them, and it is also consistent with the mysterious and awkward fact that Scandinavians, that were not Jewish, were sent to concentration camps in large numbers. Many Scandinavians are of Asian descent.

Here’s the code to generate the graphs:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7c2j2dxseq7up7/Updated_Heidelbergensis_CMNDLINE.m?dl=0

Here’s the dataset:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7c2j2dxseq7up7/Updated_Heidelbergensis_CMNDLINE.m?dl=0

Any missing code can be found in my paper, A New Model of Computational Genomics.