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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

The ancient genomics revolution (Skoglund & Mathieson 2017 preprint)

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Two former Harvard scientists Pontus Skoglund and Iain Mathieson are working on a new review paper on the wide range of scientific breakthro...
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Monday, November 13, 2017

Who's your (proto) daddy Western Europeans?

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Considering the increasingly large numbers of paleogenomic samples being released online nowadays, it's no longer practical for me to tr...
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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Descendants of Greeks in the medieval Himalayas?

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Below is an abstract from the upcoming Human Evolution 2017 conference (Cambridge, UK, November 20-22). It'll be interesting to see whe...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Genetic ancestry online store

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Update 05/02/2025: To get your Global25 coords, please use the app HERE . The whole process usually takes a couple of days. Feel free to sp...
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Monday, October 30, 2017

On the wrong end of a steppe herder's cudgel (?)

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From a new paper at the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology : In this study, we examine trauma on human remains from the Tripolye s...
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Genetic and linguistic structure across space and time in Northern Europe

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I feel that I need to do a double take, and demonstrate more obviously why my new PCA, the one that I introduced in the recent Tollense Vall...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Global distributions of lactase persistence alleles (Liebert et al. 2017)

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The series of maps below is from a new paper by Liebert et al. at Human Genetics . Almost certainly, any population with a sizable level of...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Ancient Guanches genetically most similar to modern-day Berbers (Rodríguez-Varela et al. 2017)

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Over at Current Biology at this LINK . Emphasis is mine: Summary: The origins and genetic affinity of the aboriginal inhabitants of the C...
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Tollense Valley Bronze Age warriors were very close relatives of modern-day Slavs

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This is strongly suggested by the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) below, which shows that many of the Tollense Valley warriors (Welzin_BA...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Hilariously wrong

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From a recent paper at Forensic Science International : The most commonly found haplogroups [among Lithuanians] are R1a and N, hence it c...
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