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I'm putting together a G25 Proto-Indo-European master sheet that I'll be using in a future blog post about the Indo-European, or, if...

This is another guest post by an anonymous contributor . Again, I don't necessarily agree with the author, but is he wrong? Feel free to...

It seems like we're getting close to the moment when Iosif Lazaridis has to finally admit that the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) homeland wa...

I just emailed this to the authors of High-resolution genomic ancestry reveals mobility in early medieval Europe , a new preprint at bioRxiv...

If, like Iosif Lazaridis, you subscribe to the idea that the Yamnaya people carry early Anatolian farmer-related admixture that spread into ...

It's always amusing to see some random Jovan or Dimitar arguing online that Slavic speakers have been in the Balkans since at least the ...

The ancIBD method paper from the David Reich Lab was just published in Nature (open access here ). It's a very useful effort, but the a...

A few weeks ago bioRxiv published two preprints on the Seima-Turbino Phenomenon (see here and here ). I can't say much about these m...

When used properly, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an extraordinarily powerful tool and one of the best ways to study fine-scale gene...

The scientists at the David Reich Lab are a clever bunch. But they're not always on top of things, and this can be a problem. For ins...

I'm totally serious when I say that this video is more objective, informative and accurate than any peer-reviewed paper published to da...

I've now had the chance to read and digest the following two papers in Science about the origin of Indo-European languages: Language ...

I've started analyzing the Identity-by-Descent (IBD) data from the recent Ringbauer et al. preprint (see here ). Unfortunately, it'l...

Lazaridis, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. recently claimed that the Yamnaya people of the Pontic-Caspian (PC) steppe carried "substantial...

Kevin Brook, who occasionally comments on this blog, has published a peer-reviewed book titled The Maternal Genetic Lineages of Ashkenazic J...

Who wants to bet against this map? Keep in mind that ART038 (~3000 calBCE) remains the oldest sample with the V1636 and R1b Y-chromosome mut...

When discussing the Kura-Araxes culture and its people it's important to understand these key points: - there is Eastern European step...

G25 coordinates for most of the samples from the recent Reitsema et al. paper are available in a text file here . They're also in the G...

Even though the Yamnaya culture probably originated in what is now Ukraine, the earliest Yamnaya samples currently available are from the mo...

A paper in Science co-authored by around 200 scientists from some of the world's top academic institutions surely must mean something, ...