Constructed genetic map of Europe showing the degree of relatedness between its populations

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“Basques are genetically distinctive, but they aren’t all that different from other Iberian people. Most notably, they seem to lack the minor Near Eastern admixture that came to the peninsula in both the Bronze Age and later periods. FWIW, no one would’ve ever guessed based on language affinities—but Sardinians are way more genetically distinctive than Basques in the scheme of Europe, and way more divergent from mainland Italians than Basques are from Iberians”–ben-canaan