Eurogenes Blog

Even though the Yamnaya culture probably originated in what is now Ukraine, the earliest Yamnaya samples currently available are from the mo...

The debate over the location of the so called Indo-Anatolian homeland won't be decided by the persistence of any type of genetic ancestr...

A paper in Science co-authored by around 200 scientists from some of the world's top academic institutions surely must mean something, ...

Back in 2016 I made this prediction about the origins of the Yamnaya people (Steppe_EMBA): But here's my prediction: Steppe_EMBA only ...

In my last blog post I made a mistake in my interpretation of this quote from Lazaridis, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. , because it confused th...

Update 29/08/22: Dear Iosif #2 ... I'm skimming through the Lazaridis, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. paper that just came out at Scie...

I updated my Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of Mediterranean populations with most of the ancient Jewish samples from the Waldman et al....

I had a quick look at the genotype data from the recent Waldman et al. preprint focusing on the ancestry of early Jews from Erfurt, Germany...

Harvard's David Reich is doing a talk next month about the genetic history of West Asia and nearby parts of Europe. This is a quote from...

It's that time of the academic year again when bioRxiv is inundated with ancient DNA preprints. I'm not complaining, but I almost s...