>>509580793
>People in Cordoba, Valencia and Seville are far different from the rest of Spain even before Moors conquered it.

You're actually proving the study's point - if southern Spain was already genetically distinct before the Moors, it shows the Mediterranean has been a genetic highway for thousands of years, not just 700.

It means Morocco and southern Spain were already "cousins" before the Moors ever showed up - they just became even closer cousins afterward