We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other ancient genomes with 2,345 contemporary humans to show that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians, who contributed to both Europeans and Near Easterners; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west European hunter-gatherer related ancestry. We model these populations’ deep relationships and show that early European farmers had ∼44% ancestry from a ‘basal Eurasian’ population that split before the diversification of other non-African lineages.
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
Basal-Eurasian is a hypothetical line of descent, which exists in greatest amount among ancient Near East individuals. Basal Eurasians may have been present in the Near East, as anatomically modern humans resided in the Levant approximately 100,000 years ago.
Interesting topic. Please cite the source for these diagrams. I am familiar with the underlying theories. These diagrams are connected to some of them, but are not universally accepted. There are those who support the Anatolian hypothesis as the “homeland” of Indo-European. There are population geneticists who support a migration out of Africa through the Caucasus, which is the opposite of the arrows in the diagrams. See http://mathii.github.io/2017/09/21/blood-groups-in-ancient-europe for some pertinent work by Iain Mathieson. He does make specific reference to Rh Neg issues.