"Europe is the most homogeneous continent." --THE HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY OF HUMAN GENES
THE EUROPEAN FAMILY
A website/blog dedicated to the preservation and prosperity of the Nations of Europe and people of European lineage worldwide
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"Individuals from opposite ends of Europe are expected to share millions of genealogical ancestors over the past 1000 years." ---Coop et al, 2013, The Geography of Recent Genetic Ancestry across Europe.
"The homogeneity of the mitochondrial gene pool in Europe suggests a recent common ancestry for European populations." ---Pult et al, 1994, MtDNA sequences from Switzerland reveal striking homogeneity of European populations.
"All individuals [in Europe] between 37,000 and 14,000 years ago descended from a single founder population which forms part of the ancestry of present-day Europeans."---Reich et al, 2016, The Genetic History of Ice Age Europe.