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The recent Smithsonian Channel documentary, "The General Was Female?", piqued my interest for a few reasons. It attempted to solve a historical mystery using ancient DNA, and involved identifying the remains of Casimir Pulaski, a Polish cavalryman who served not only in Poland, but also in...

Polls in the USA often include breakdowns by race, but this is the first one I've seen break it down by European ancestry. From BuzzFeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/trump-and-the-white-vote The article didn't include every ancestry they asked for, or that was volunteered, but they...

Per the New York Times: This is one of the first such cases I've seen that's been proven with autosomal DNA rather than Y-DNA or mtDNA.

Regardless of whether or not you actually live in the UK, and if you do live in the UK, regardless of where you live: Which party would you vote for if every party appeared on your ballot? I'm curious because I follow international elections, but I can rarely decide which party to hope for in...

From Reuters: I'm a skinny dude with a BMI around 17. There goes my dream of being a French model. :useless:

Much can be made about the impact of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England, and how they transformed the culture, language, and genetics of England. According to the People of the British Isles project, the majority of the English are genetically closely clustered, owing in no small part to their...

The semargl.me Y-DNA database and website is currently down in response to this screed against it by DNAeXplained. For those who don't know, DNAeXplained is in partnership with FTDNA to offer personalized DNA reports (at a rather steep cost), while semargl.me is an amateur database that mines...

Eurogenes has recently explored a three-component admixture analysis based on ancient samples, in which the three components are named WHG (West European Hunter-Gatherer), EEF (Early European Farmer), and ANE (Ancient North Eurasian). This analysis can be applied to existing European...

The original paper is here, although it is probably easier to refer to Dienekes' analysis here. The biggest takeaway is this phylogenetic tree (also available at Dieneke's analysis): When discussing Sardinian settlement during the Neolithic, it's easy to conclude that they were I2a1a...

A new linguistics paper from Pagel et al. is making a splash by reconstructing a family tree of different language families, including Dravidian, Kartvelian, Uralic, Indo-European, Altaic, and others (although Afro-Asiatic and Sino-Tibetan don't make it). It is available here. Science Now...

How much of the genetics of the East Prussian Germans who left in the mid 20th century actually came from the native Old Prussians of the region? If it was little, these people were not native to the area, and were in many cases returning home. If it was a lot, then the expulsion displaced...

We often tell each other here something along the lines of: "Don't identify too strongly with your haplogroup. After all, it's not just your haplogroup that makes up your ancestry, and your ancestors have carried many other haplogroups in the past." Well... is that true for you? I'm interested...

Similar to how I was curious to hear what Eupedia forum members thought about the French election, I'm curious as to who everyone is pulling for in the US election. This isn't a question of who you think is likely to win, so don't be shy in voting for third parties, if that's who you really like...

Haplogroups R1b, I1, R1a, and even E1b and G2a have a plethora of interesting famous figures associated with them, proven through YDNA tests, YDNA tests of relatives, or ancient DNA tests. Maciamo has kept small lists on his individual haplogroup pages, and there's even a Wikipedia page on the...

A PhD thesis by Marie Lacan (in French) gives multiple samples of ancient DNA, including 2 Y-DNA samples from the La Pierre Fritte Dolmen. Both turned out to be I2a1a (Lacan uses "I2a1," it's M26+, the type common now in Sardinia). I put the STRs into Cullen's Predictor, and confirmed the high...

By now, I hope anyone who is interested in the origin of the culture of the modern United States is familiar with Fischer's Albion's Seed. For those who aren't, the premise is simple: four specific migrations, namely (1) the New England Puritans, (2) the Virginia Cavaliers and their servants...

Haplogroup A is no longer at the base of the human Y-DNA tree. Make way for Haplogroup Y0:

So the Dutch have set an election date, following the collapse of their government after Rutte could not come to an agreement with Wilders, who was propping it up. Polls have indicated that coalition formations could be as chaotic as last time. Here are a couple of possible outcomes based on...

One striking thing I noticed when looking over my own genealogy is how incredibly matrilineal religious identification trends were. My religious family tree looks like the following, with fathers on the left and mothers on the right: Other than my mother's denominational changes in her early...

The Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen is usually considered the earliest extant complete Arthurian tale, dating to the 11th century, and including traditions that probably predate that significantly. As a result, it lacks the later French Romance influence that permeates other early Welsh prose, like...