Eurogenes Blog

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...

Many years ago, well before the start of the ancient DNA revolution, someone made the very clever inference that the N-Tat Y-chromosome mark...

A whole lot of nonsense was posted online, often by people who should've known better, after I claimed that kra001 was a solid proxy for...

Obviously, genes don't speak languages, people do. But sometimes it's possible to associate a linguistic group with a very specific ...

I was hoping that the Covid-19 pandemic wouldn't have an immediate impact on the publication of ancient DNA papers and new data, but con...

This year has already been massive in all sorts of ways, including for new data and software releases. So I'm thinking it might be ti...

N-L1026 is the Y-chromosome haplogroup most closely associated with the speakers of Uralic languages. Thus far, the oldest published instanc...

The academic consensus is that Indo-European languages first spread into the Baltic region from the Eastern European steppes along with the ...

Not too many people have been buried sitting on wagons. The most famous case is that of an Early Bronze Age man who, considering his injurie...

Let's speculate about the linguistic affinities of the currently available ancient populations from the Caucasus and surrounds. I put to...

Historical linguists have long posited that Fennoscandia was a busy contact zone between early Germanic and Uralic languages. The first anci...

A new paper on the genetic structure of Uralic-speaking populations has appeared at Genome Biology (see here ). It looks to me like the pre...