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Update 25/01/2018: The Basal-rich K7 is now available to personal genomics customers for $6 USD a pop (see here ). ... I've got a n...

Open access at Science : Abstract: We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile Crescent), where s...

Very interesting new preprint at bioRxiv : Abstract: It is a long standing question as which genes define the characteristic facial featur...

Back in May I hypothesized that present-day East Asians were prehistoric hybrids of partly Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) origin. I got the id...

Lazaridis et al. showed that their Steppe_EMBA grouping, which included Afanasievo, Poltavka and Yamnaya, as well as two Potapovka samples, ...

Open access at Genome Biology and Evolution : Abstract: In a recent interdisciplinary study, Das and co-authors have attempted to trace th...

Courtesy of Arbuckle et al. at the Journal of Archaeological Science . Emphasis is mine: Abstract: In this paper we address the timing of...

One of the biggest surprises in the new Lazaridis et al. preprint is that the Natufians don't show any Sub-Saharan African admixture wh...

Fascinating stuff, and basically in line with the generally accepted archaeological model of Bell Beaker origins in Iberia. Of course, the...

For the latest datasheets with D-stats of the form D(Chimp,Columns)(Mbuti.DG,Rows), featuring samples from Lazaridis et al. 2016, see here ,...