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From: David Ewing <>
Subject: Re: [R-M222] [DNA-R1B1C7] R1b1b2e??
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:39:06 -0700


R:M222 means exactly what R1b1c7 once meant, and both mean exactly what the
long list of intermediate names have meant. The ancestry is the same. The
(usually faulty) arguments about origins are not affected.

If you want to understand why the names change, you will have to learn
something about how the phylogeny trees are constructed and how the names
are devised. Meanwhile, if all you want is not to be confused: nothing is
different.

David Ewing

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