Sunday, October 30, 2016

We Are Our Brother's Keeper: Are All Men Cousins? And Is This The Root Of Prejudice?

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Many of you already know the following concepts.  Humans intuit a sense of community and family with those with whom they are related.  This...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

How DNA Ancestry Testing Works and How Can I Know It's Accurate

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When a commercial DNA testing site like Ancestry.com or 23andme or FTDNA tests your DNA, they do not know which snippet came from which of y...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Neandertals Never Died; Just Their Direct Sirelines and Matrilines

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From a piece by Faye Flam in none other than Bloomberg, comes this wonderfully succinct nugget that expresses something that readers of this...
Friday, February 5, 2016

The Sad Case of the Orthodoxy and the Posth Article on Pleistocene Demographics

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Just a couple months ago, in the context of the peopling of Ireland, I emphasized on Eupeida (and here) how important it is to put all the ...
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Saturday, January 30, 2016

In Praise of Roberta Estes and DNAeXplained.com

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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...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Calculating Matches on Gedmatch: Why CentiMorgans (cM) are more important than SNPs

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I have discovered that very very very few people know this, so it is worth posting. The different testing companies, 23andme, Ancestry, FT...
Monday, December 28, 2015

The Cassidy Earthquake: Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome

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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...
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

The Spread of Haplogroups in Europe, Especially R1b

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This post is intended to be a general foray into what I call "The Two -Ics" that explain modern haplogroup distributions: demogr...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

A Review of All Theories, on Why R1b Is So Common in Western Europeans

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The great Roman historian Tacitus begins the Germania by discussing how the Germans are separated from certain peoples by mountains, and sep...
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Another Way of Thinking About Ancient Populations (Autosomes versus just Y and mtDNA)

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I don't think Neandertals died out at all.   No more so than any population that existed from 600,000 to 25,000 years ago.   If yo...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

A Proposal for a New Lexicon for Ancient DNA "Components" Like WHG, EHG, EEF, ANE, and CHG

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Some of us a few years back started to decry the ever-ongoing ISOGG renaming process, which coupled with the discovery of new subclades, m...
Saturday, December 12, 2015

How Little We Know About Ancient DNA - Part II

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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...
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Sunday, November 8, 2015

The Eerie Similarities Between Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ

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Over two-thousand years, some events happened. Tales of the events were passed down orally by common people, in societies w...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

What Is the Best and Most Accurate Ancestry Calculator (DNA Testing)?

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What Is the Best and Most Accurate Ancestry or Admixture Calculator from DNA Testing? We Review 23andme, AncestryDNA, Family Tree ...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Toward A New Understanding of Etruscan Origins

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As this now archived thread on Anthrogenica shows , the two sides to the Etruscan debate are like ships passing in the night.  They can'...