Tim Drayton wrote:I find one thing puzzling. Linguists consider Finnish and Hungarian to belong to the same langauge family, but the two peoples appear to have little in common genetically.
The population of Finland fell to a very small number at some point in history (but after they planted roots in "Finland"), so that the present natives arose from a smaller surviving genetic pool; which may have skewed the neighbour-relatedness.
By my reckoning they would have to find a gene which hasn't changed since before that historical event, but was different to one existing prior to the previous great drift into Europe and chart its progress through the population (to work out how related they are indeed to the Hungarians).
.... but they are still clearly more related to the Hungarians than they are to say the Brits or Italians.