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  Neolithic population collapse may have been caused by plague, researchers say This article is more than 6 months old DNA studies suggest d...

R1b-L23 is the key branch in Western Europe, with huge numbers of Welsh, Spaniards, Irish, and Western French (among a long list) bearing de...

Alberto over at A DNA Era has posted a long, quite detailed theory about Indo European origins.  We give him major kudos for thinking outsid...

Some politically correct scientists claim that you can't define Europeans as a race.  "Your lying eyes," they say, denying eve...

One of the most interesting papers of the last year was this gem from Owen Alexander Higgins et al, in Nature , entitled "Life history ...

 A new paper is out by Hannah Moots et al that analyzed DNA samples from several sites in the ancient Mediterranean. The authors have been s...

We're just stumbling upon a study by brilliant geneticist Eran Elhaik, that calls into doubt a major tool used by many to achieve the ou...

  We've discussed this before.  A certain chauvinism (we won't call it ethno-nationalism or racism) of online idiots who believe tha...

 At first glance, this may seem like a basic, tutorial post.  Like one of those you see on a genealogical DNA website, designed to help peop...

 A delightful new paper came out recently by Morten Allentoft et al., entitled, "POPULATION GENOMICS OF STONE AGE EURASIA".  Befor...

We and others have noticed and posted about a recurring phenomenon in academic papers.  Authors, often Northern Italians, issue quibbling, h...

 From the 2021 paper, " Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula ...

I've been very kind to 23andme in the past because of it's easy-to-use interface and it's candor when it comes to disclosing the...

  I've posted before about the eerie similarities between the life of Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ .  They are too numerous to mention...

Readers of this blog know that we like science.  That we hate popular-culture fairy tales and stereotypes.  And that we love to correct awfu...

Thought of the day: So many men (who coincidentally bear R1b) love to think that R1b is the lineage of kings and conquerors.  In reality, th...

Long-time readers of this blog know that we have reminded our readers that ethnic calculators or heritage estimates based on DNA tests are n...

Europeans are not that diverse genetically.  There is less genetic diversity from Sweden to Spain than there is within any given African vil...

Kristen V. Brown is back with an excellent piece for Bloomberg, on home DNA testing , that is remarkably astute for a piece in the popular m...