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The Principal Component Analyses (PCA) with ancient samples that I post on this blog are amongst the most accurate and best examples of thei...

Note that the individuals from the earlier site of Boncuklu basically cluster with early Neolithic Europeans, while those from Tepecik-Ciftl...

There still seems to be a lot of confusion around the traps, including in the comments at this blog, about the genetic structure of the earl...

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...

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, ...

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 ,...

A lot of things now make so much more sense thanks to all of the recently published ancient DNA. For instance, in the Principal Component An...