Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Reminder to Eurogenes and Davidski: You ARE NOT Your Y Chromosome, and Your Manhood Isn't Tied to It!

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A great study just came out that confirms what many of us have noticed.  Increasingly, instead of dude being proud of their ethnic group (an...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

DNA Testing for Heritage and Ancestry Is, Simply Put, Inaccurate

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You go to take a cholesterol test, and your doctor, very thorough, sends you to four different labs.  One reports your cholesterol is 200, o...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Are Ethnicity Percentages and Ancestry Calculators from DNA Tests Accurate?

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The media has blasted headlines this week that show an incredible ignorance of DNA testing for ethnic percentages.  One, which could have be...
Friday, July 21, 2017

AND THE WINNER IS... (Comparing Admixture/Heritage Tests on Gedmatch)

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Methodology: We ran exhaustive tests of several commercial and free DNA-testing labs and ethnicity calculators.   To test the sites, we...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Will Tim Sullivan and Ancestry.com Continue Its VIRTUAL Ethnic Cleansing of Germans?

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23andme discloses right off the bat that it cannot identify German or French ancestry 92% of the time. Ancestry doesn't seem to be abl...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

The Genetics of the Ancient Romans

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As we've noted before, there are a bunch of charlatans in the world of Ancient DNA.  The worst offender, perhaps, is a pseudonymous Belg...
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Friday, May 12, 2017

Banned from Anthrogenica, Censored by Eurogenes, Laugh at Eupedia

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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...
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Saturday, April 29, 2017

When Is A "Conquest" Not A Conquest?

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When Is A Conquest Not A Conquest? You are a scientist living in the year 4017, specializing in the ancient civilizations that existed be...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

On the Need for More Interdisciplinariness in "Interdisciplinary" Studies

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