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Figuratively speaking of course. The relevant paper is behind a paywall at Science here . But the supplementary info PDF is freely availabl...

For a while now I've been hearing rumors that the Reich Lab was working on Late Bronze Age and Iron Age samples from Pakistan's Swa...

Part of the introduction to the new Lopez et al. preprint on the genetics of Zoroastrians says this: The Zoroastrian religion developed f...

A new prerpint on the genetic legacy of the Zoroastrians has just appeared at bioRxiv . I'm reading it now. Might make some comments la...

An abstract book from a recent mathematics meeting in Estonia includes an abstract on the genetic impact of Bronze Age steppe pastoralists ...

A very useful new paper on the origin and spread of mitochondrial (mtDNA) haplogroup U7 has just appeared at Scientific Reports . It re-i...

At Scientific Reports Meiri et al. present and analyze an updated dataset of ancient cattle and pig DNA from the Eastern Mediterranean. At...

Over at Antiquity : Abstract: Two recent palaeogenetic studies have identified a movement of Yamnaya peoples from the Eurasian steppe to C...

And so it begins. BMC Evolutionary Biology has a very interesting, but hardly surprising, new paper by Silva et al. on the population hist...

Recently at PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases : Abstract: We have examined the remains of a Pilgrim burial from St Mary Magdalen, Wincheste...