Eurogenes Blog

I'm seeing increasing numbers of Bronze and Iron Age samples from Central Europe and surrounds with this peculiar set of traits: - sha...

I was about to post a comment under a new preprint at bioRxiv , but the comment section isn't there anymore. Hopefully, this is just a t...

Ancient Bohemian I20509 is dated to 400-200 BCE, or the La Tene period, in Patterson et al. 2021 (see here ). However, he belongs to Y-chrom...

Years of blogging about population genetics has seriously eroded my faith in the peer review process. During the past decade I've witn...

A new paper at Nature by Patterson et al. argues that Celtic languages spread into Britain during the Bronze Age rather than the Iron Age [...

I'm hoping that 2022 is the year when this problem is finally straightened out. Over to you David Reich, Nick Patterson, Iosif Lazaridis...

Over at Nature at this LINK . It's nice to see yet another huge surprise courtesy of ancient DNA. Please note that most of the ancients...

Over at Nature at this LINK . I'm getting the impression that geneticists and the editors at Nature are really crap at geography. Obvi...

This ISBA9 abstract seems to be highly relevant to the ultimate origins of the Yamnaya and Corded Ware peoples. Emphasis is mine: Genomic ...

Over at Science Advances at ths LINK . I'll take a closer look at this issue after I get the relevant genotype data. Anyone got the lin...