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Sunday, December 18, 2016

So how many of you really read the preprints at bioRxiv?


There's a new preprint at bioRxiv about the spread of the plague across much of Eurasia via the expansions of Early Bronze Age steppe pastoralists. It's been up for a few days now. Judging by the number of tweets on the preprint, a lot of people have read it. Or have they?

The manuscript contains a glaring error, a couple times over, in which the authors mix up the Afanasievo Culture with the Andronovo Culture. That's OK, this is why we have preprints and bioRxiv. I just found it somewhat amusing to see one lonely voice pointing this out under the rash of tweets recommending the paper.




Update 20/12/2016: A corrected version of the preprint has just been posted at bioRxiv. See here.

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2 comments:

Richard Rocca said...

Just in case they don't read the comments section, you may want to send them an email at...andrades{at}shh.mpg.de

andrew said...

A new revision was posted, probably fixing that point.