Just det här med finnarnas ev mongoliska ursprung tycks vara en känslig fråga. Det har lett till rasism. Men jag tycker det är helt ok med undersökningar om blodgrupper, t o m kort- el långskallighet, om det gäller att ta reda på hur folkvandringarna gått. Felet med dessa mätningar av skallar är att man utgick från att "långskallarna" (med germanskt ursprung) skulle vara bättre (intelligentare, laglydigare, friskare whatever) än "kortskallarna" (med ryskt/asiatiskt ursprung). Det är ju bara ovetenskapligt nonsens.
Edward Dutton skrev:Most people are surprised when they discover that until as recently as the 1960s it was widely accepted that the Finns originally came from Mongolia. But the Mongolian ‘Origins of the Finns’ is a controversial topic in Finland. The Western-looking academic elite have done all that they can to suppress it and academics that still contend that Finns have ‘Mongoloid origins’ are cast into the wilderness in a ferocious dispute.
Until very recently, Finns were encouraged to see themselves either as ‘eastern’ or at least ‘between east and west.’ It was in the 1790, when Sweden ruled Finland, that German anthropologist J. F. Blumenbach compared Finnish, Sami (the Arctic reindeer herders) and Mongolian skulls and concluded that the Finns were ‘mongoloid’ and not ‘white’ like the Swedes or Finland’s Swedish-speaking aristocracy. This was widely accepted and led to the Turanian theory – that both the Finns and Sami had originally come from the East – as well as strengthening the view, according to Finland-Swede sociologist Nina af Enehjelm, that Finns were somehow ‘other’ and even ‘inferior.’
https://web.archive.org/web/20090208191 ... /2084/154/Ja, detta stämmer säkert betr hur man ansåg förr. Men hur tillförlitlig är denne Edward Dutton annars? Rick Kittles ha skrivit en avhandling om "flaskhalsteorin",
The Finnish Population Bottlenecks: Exploiting the Evolutionary History of Genes for Population and Genetic Disease Studies (1998).
The more recent discovery of genetics has added further evidence to the ‘Mongol’ claim. Geneticist Richard Kittles found in 1998 that Finns have ‘Dual Origins’ between Germanic and Mongoloid as measured by their ‘Y Chromosome Haplotype Variation.’ Other geneticists estimated that Finns have between 10 percent and a quarter mongoloid genes, more than any other European nation. Twenty-seven percent of Finns carry the eastern ‘Tat C’ marker compared to only seven percent in Norway.
And in 2003, Slovenian geneticist Andrej Marusic observed that the Finnish propensity to alcoholism could be explained by the ADH22 gene ‘which is common in Eastern peoples but almost unheard of Europe.’
När jag läst om den finlandssvenska befolkningen på 1800-talet så verkar supandet utbrett där också. Så jag tror mer på kulturella orsaker (ett hårt och enformigt liv) än genetiska.