One of the most perseverent myths lefts behind as a legacy of Dr. Carlton Coon's The Races of Europe is the alleged existence of a "Ladogan race" whose somewhat phenotypically Asiatic features are asusmed to be the direct result of Mongoloid admixture. Richard McCullough estimates that these "Ladogans" compose approximately 35% of the population of Russia, not to mention the "Neo-Danubians" and "East-Baltics" who supposedly are the result of Ladogan miscegenation with a lighter element. According to McCullough, 80% of Russians are either Ladogan, East Baltic or Neo-Danubian; this assumes that these Russians have sufficient Mongoloid admixture to alter their phenotype. Modern genetics disagrees:
http://www.geocities.com/refuting_rm/admixture.html
Superhaplogroup M represents Asian or East African admixture. Haplogroup L is sub-Saharan. Haplogroups A through D represent Asian or Amerindian admixture.
M and L A, B, C D Total
Bulgaria/Turkey 2.92% 6.86% 9.78%
European Russia 1.40% 3.72% 5.12%
Spain/Portugal 1.99% 2.27% 4.26%
France/Italy 2.42% 0.80% 3.22%
Germany 1.14% 0.57% 1.71%
Finland/Estonia 0.99% 0.50% 1.49%
Scandinavia 0.47% 0.32% 0.79%
England/Wales 0.47% 0.23% 0.70%
Scotland 0.11% 0.11% 0.22%
Iceland 0% 0.43% 0.43%
Ireland 0% 0% 0%
The superficially "Asiatic" features of most "Neo-Danubians", "Ladogans" and "East baltics" are due to convergent evolution, the same way that the superfically "Mediterranean characteristics of dark Brits are due to convergent evolution rather than Middle Eatsenr admixture.
--Joseph.
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