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Eurogenes Blog: November 2014
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Short clip: The making of modern Europe. Simple but, I think, very cool animation: ten ancient genomes analyzed with the Eurogenes K15. More elaborate clips are on the way. And this is basically the same thing, but restricted to samples from Hungary. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Admixture and migration patterns along the former Silk Road. This Mezzavilla et al. Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Human paleogenet...
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Eurogenes Blog: The Proto-Indo-Europeans came from the steppe and kept wooly sheep
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Friday, August 7, 2015. The Proto-Indo-Europeans came from the steppe and kept wooly sheep. Fascinating stuff, especially in the context of recent ancient DNA results from Central and Eastern Europe. Unfortunately, all I have are these abstracts. More info here. Domestication and language spreads in early northern Eurasia. Speaker: Johanna Nichols, University of California, Berkeley. 1 – 200 of 231 Newer›. 160; Newest». The stud...
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Eurogenes Blog: The ancient DNA case against the Anatolian hypothesis
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The ancient DNA case against the Anatolian hypothesis. In the debate over the location of the Proto-Indo-European urheimat. Colin Renfrew's Anatolian hypothesis. Is usually mentioned as the most viable alternative to the steppe or Kurgan hypothesis. But probably not for very much longer. The expansion of Kurgan groups such as the Yamnaya, which led to the formation of the Corded Ware horizon across much o...
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Eurogenes Blog: Global PCA of selected Late Neolithic/Bronze Age Eurasians
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Global PCA of selected Late Neolithic/Bronze Age Eurasians. Click on the links to go to my drive to download the plots. If you're having trouble finding the ancient samples, type their IDs into the PDF search field and hit enter. RISE174 Iron Age Scandinavia. RISE174 Iron Age Scandinavia. RISE174 Iron Age Scandinavia. The Andronovo Culture was succeeded in the Altai region during the Late Bronze Age by the K...
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Eurogenes Blog: October 2014
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Friday, October 31, 2014. Genetic continuity and shifts across the metal ages in the Carpathian Basin: analysis of ancient Hungarian genomes CO1, BR1 and IR1. The recent Gamba at el. paper. On the genetic prehistory of the Great Hungarian Plain was an excellent piece of paleogenomic detective work. However, I feel that the authors could have done a little better with characterizing the genetic origins of their samples. Indeed, the...
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Eurogenes Blog: June 2014
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Thursday, June 5, 2014. Coming soon: genome-wide data from more than forty 3-9K year-old humans from the ancient Russian steppe. This here is a presentation abstract from the upcoming SMBE 2014 conference. I simply can't wait to see the paper, which I'm guessing will be published very soon. We report modeling analyses showing how the steppe samples may relate to ancient and present-day DNA samples from the rest of Europe, the Cauc...
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Eurogenes Blog: March 2015
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Sunday, March 29, 2015. European foragers were almost wiped out by the ice age. I think what this article. 8216;As an archaeologist and anthropologist, I was quite shocked to see how limited, how small the population numbers were. You know, shockingly small,’ said Prof. Pinhasi, based at University College Dublin, Ireland. Prof Pinhasi’s team has found that the genomes sequenced from hunter-gatherers from Hungary and Switzer...
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Eurogenes Blog: May 2015
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Another strange paper from the Wellcome Trust. I often don't agree with what Greg Cochran has to say (for instance, see here. However, his last post. A damning critique of the recent Pagani et al. Paper on the Out of Africa exodus, was simply awesome:. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Genetic substructures among Armenians from Armenia and Lebanon. The Armenian samples from the recent Haber et al. manuscript. After r...
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Eurogenes Blog: June 2015
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Focusing on European population genetics and modern physical anthropology. Monday, June 29, 2015. K8 results for selected Allentoft et al. genomes. Running the ancient genomes from Allentoft et al. in ADMIXTURE is proving a challenge. The reasons for this are covered in the paper; see section 6 in the supp info. Fortunately, I managed to obtain robust outcomes using my K8 model. For ten samples representing almost all of the main archeological groups studied by the authors. The full K8 spreadsheet is here.