Genetics, History, DNA, and Genealogy Information

With all the focus in Southern Italian history being on exotic influences (which as we've posted before make up a very small part of the...

Any scientist visiting the websites or online forums of Eupedia, Anthrogenica, or Apricity (to name a few) is mortified.  The amount of shor...

Below is a map of confirmed instances of I-M26 found in prehistoric remains.  Lots of others could have potentially been added -- ancestral ...

If you've been following Ancient DNA lately, you know that Allentoft et al came out with results of eastern Bronze Age populations.  The...

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

Some have pointed out that the early studies showing high M26 in Castile suffered from small sample sizes.  Further, more recent posts and a...

The great paper by Brisghelli, et. al., referred to and discussed extensively below, has been updated and corrected.  The updates are stunni...

If you read the old Roman and Greek historians, you will notice that they mix their religions and mythology into their writing.  For example...

Confirms theory that M26 likely represents aboriginal Italians. In 2009, Maria Pala et al first put out the theory that YCC Hg I-M26 repre...

M26 is a clade of Haplogroup I on the Y Chromosome.   (It is sometimes called I2a1, but I disfavor such nomenclature, because I have lived...