Talk:Haplogroup L0

I am sorry, but who is saying that L0 is extinct? [1] says that L0 has a frequency of 25% in Mozambique! .... It appears, from [2] that L0 is simply the first offshoot off the tree rooted at mt-Eve. Please restore the template accordingly. dab (ᛏ) 07:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

• This is really confusing, but some people are using L0-L5 to indicate haplogroups currently found in Africa (I put links to these in the external links section of the L0 page), and some are using L0 to indicate an extinct haplogroup, which I believe was found in some ancient human remains (mtDNA can be extracted from the bone and teeth of ancient remains). I think showing it as not extinct (your change) is better, and the confusion can be discussed in the L0 article itself. .... — Reinyday, 11:50, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

• • LOL. L0 is not extinct. Everyone is descendent of L0 in a way. Personally, I am Haplogroup L0b. --Brout8 (talk) 22:23, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

That was an incorrect statement. L0 is like haplogroup A (y-dna). It is amongst oldest haplogroup but has no descendents outside it's own haplogroup. Brout8 (talk) 00:58, 7 April 2009 (UTC) 01:56

I know that Ruhli and Steyr's paper says "late Iron Age" but that may be difficult for most readers to unpack. Particularly since: "Bone collagen from the mummy was radiocarbon dated to 140±30 BP or AD 1675–1735 (2-sigma calibrated) or alternatively from AD 1800 to post-1950".

Kortoso (talk) 19:46, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

The label on the map reads 144,000 KYA however "KYA" means "thousands of years ago"... which would make the date 144 million years in the past... pretty sure it should say either 144,000 BP or 144 KYA. 2601:342:100:9000:C035:B5D5:69E:4774 (talk) 15:11, 7 October 2020 (UTC)