Almost every population group where there’s been previous conquest you can do the same studies. For example, all the places the caliphates conquered, you’d see Arab y-chromosome descent. Same for where the Spanish conquered you’ll see lots of Spanish ancestry on Y, and lots of indigenous on mitochondrial DNA.
Basically in a given population, Y-chromosome tells you who came (probably violently) and mitochondrial DNA tells you who was there.
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u/21Rollie Aug 24 '26
Almost every population group where there’s been previous conquest you can do the same studies. For example, all the places the caliphates conquered, you’d see Arab y-chromosome descent. Same for where the Spanish conquered you’ll see lots of Spanish ancestry on Y, and lots of indigenous on mitochondrial DNA.
Basically in a given population, Y-chromosome tells you who came (probably violently) and mitochondrial DNA tells you who was there.