Sunday, December 13, 2020

Julius Caesar: Basis for the Gospels, Model for Christ?

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  I've posted before about the eerie similarities between the life of Julius Caesar and Jesus Christ .  They are too numerous to mention...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Book Review -- Mezzogiorno Mistaken: The Top 10 Myths About Southern Italians

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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...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

R1b, the Lineage of Kings?

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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...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

For DNA Ethnic Estimates and Heritage Calculators, Ancestry.com Just Stole the Thunder!

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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...
Friday, December 14, 2018

Northern Italian Researcher Puts Out Another Study Trying to Hair Split Italy

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Europeans are not that diverse genetically.  There is less genetic diversity from Sweden to Spain than there is within any given African vil...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Media Starts to Gets Home DNA Testing for Ancestry Right -- Thank God!

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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...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Italy in Roman Times - The Genetics of the Ancient Romans, Part II

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Here's a great graphic that I was made aware of.  It shows Italy's ancient borders, during the Classical Era, basically the dawn of ...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Read This If You're Curious About Your MyHeritage Ethnicity Results And You're Italian

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MyHeritage ethnicity estimates seem to be THE WORST of all the major testing companies. We've received dozens of emails from people of...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

Ancestry DNA Issues Revised Ancestry Estimates, Finds that Germans Exist

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Judy G. Russell, the Legal Genealogist, is out with a fantastic new post on AncestryDNA's new ethnicity estimate percentages. As she w...
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...