Recent content by moore2moore

I've posted it before: the "science" behind so-called "admixture calculators" can't yet be called that. The validity of the output data is getting there, and will get there eventually, but it's not quite sufficient so that we can call the extant methods, "scientific." In other words, the...

If someone had posted here that mtDNA Haplogroup M had been present in Europe, they would have likely experienced the Internet Age equivalent of being shouted down. Why? Challenging the orthodoxy is never fun, for the person posting the new idea -- or for the people being challenged...

The following was posted on another thread, where it was slightly off topic, so I am relocating it here: The following exercise will help people conceptualize which ancient DNA patrilines and matrilines survived into the modern era: We all know that Italy is in the center of the Mediterranean...

How very timely: "Origins of the Irish down to mass migration, ancient DNA confirms" The study found R1b in Ireland to be the result of mass immigration (and not elite dominance)...

There are some lively discussions going on elsewhere on this board, discussing with specificity some of concepts below. I thank everyone for their thoughts, and Eupedia for the forum. This post is intended to be a more general foray into what I call "The Two -Ics" that explain modern...

Here I reviewed all of the various theories regarding the spread and commonality of R1b in Western Europe, in layman's terms.

Some of us a few years back started to decry the ever-ongoing ISOGG renaming process, which coupled with the discovery of new subclades, meant that one year, someone might be deemed R1b1b1a2bab2ba11babd12ba2b1c, and the next year R1b1b2bab2f1faf1fafaf1f1f1a. People started saying that it would...