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Several posters at Davidski's Eurogenes blog have noted that they've been banned from Anthrogenica for challenging the Kool-Aid drin...

When Is A Conquest Not A Conquest? You are a scientist living in the year 4017, specializing in the ancient civilizations that existed be...

Ah, if they were all as good as Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza.  The pioneer of interdisciplinary studies, and a Renaissance man, he would thorou...

In a world of pseudo-science and echo chambers , a few blogs stick out for being mostly in touch with reality.  In the world of Ancient DNA...

Lara Cassidy et al. just put out a paper that injects a bit of welcome science into the world of R1b fantasy theories.  Those theories, of m...

This post is intended to be a general foray into what I call "The Two -Ics" that explain modern haplogroup distributions: demogr...

The great Roman historian Tacitus begins the Germania by discussing how the Germans are separated from certain peoples by mountains, and sep...

Earlier this year, I posted a series of maps graphically depicting the (at that time) exhaustive list of Ancient DNA finds, mapped out for b...

I've frequented several of the Ancient DNA discussion boards lately, and have been flummoxed by the self-important, self-promoted, self-...