Eurogenes Blog

I wasn't going to blog about the Clemente et al. "Aegean palatial civilizations" paper, because I think that it's a rather...

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...

Over at Science Advances at this LINK . Many of the samples from this paper are in the Global25 datasheets . Look for the relevant populati...

Over at Nature at this LINK . The paper focuses on Neanderthal ancestry in Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) humans from what is now Bulgaria...

I've read some very strange theories over the years trying to explain who was responsible for the so called Caucasus/Iranian-related anc...

A couple of years ago, the authors of a paper about a group of Iron Age nomads from the site of Shirenzigou, in the eastern Tian Shan, made ...

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 ...

Here's a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) featuring some of the ancients from the recent Saag et al. paper at Science Advances . To s...

A new paper at PLoS ONE reports on the first human genomes reliably associated with the Single Grave culture (SGC). They were sequenced fr...