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There may not be much archaeological evidence of an Irish invasion of Scotland, but there is linguistic, historical and DNA evidence of, at the very least, significant Irish migration to Scotland in...

My ancient ancestors were such a diverse bunch. How can I characterize my billions of genetic ancestors with just one ancient ethnicity label?

Lower Rhine Bell Beaker might cover the majority of...

We don't know for certain that it started in Siberia, but until an older skeleton with basal R* turns up somewhere else, that's the best evidence so far. New discoveries of skeletons older than...

A vindicated opinion from 7 years ago?

Ukraine was not on anybody's list. I'm surprised that the Top 10 has not been re-assessed in light of the invasion of Ukraine, even though that terrible war...

When I compare the music, movies, television, literature, art, style, journalism, comedy, cars, technology, science, politics and social changes, it has to be the 60s for me.

When I was about ten a doctor looked at my feet and said "I can see you've got Maori blood". I never found out whether it was my toes or something else about my feet that was the basis of his...

The U4 haplogroup is common in Balto-Slavic populations. Go to the U4 thread under mtDNA Haplogroups for a distribution map and discussion.

Personally I would interpret those results as statistical noise. Results at the individual chromosome level have a larger margin of error than the overall result.

For example, in my own Eurogenes...

Gert Stulp, (University of Groningen), who suggested a back-and-forth loop between slightly shorter and slightly taller generations, says that nutrition can also be a big factor. When better...

Perhaps the explanation for the Dutch overtaking other countries in height over the last 70 years is that taller Dutch men have more children on average than other Dutch men. Dutch women of average...

So did Dutch women increase their preference for taller men after 1950 compared with Danish, Swedish, German and American women?

Gert Stulp, a scientist at the University of Groningen in the...

In a 1969 BBC interview Delon was asked about people who "suggest very very strongly that you have homosexual tastes?" Delon replied "So what's wrong if I had? Or I did? Would I be guilty of...

I wonder if the Dutch famine of 1944-45 had something to do with it. Perhaps the children of the famine responded by switching to "emergency mode", using every scrap of protein as efficiently as they...

Perhaps if Mick hadn't had the careless habit of wearing mis-matching socks, Marianne might have paid more attention to him.

Actually, Delon and Faithfull were well acquainted with each other....

This research is contradicted by the findings reported in the 1967 movie "Bedazzled". Peter Cook says to Dudley Moore "I always think it very ironical that the male of the species reaches his sexual...

I recommend the Penguin Atlas of World Population History by McEvedy and Jones. For example, they estimated that the population of Anatolia increased from 40,000 in the Mesolithic to 200,000 in the...

I agree that humans have some unique characteristics, such as syntactic speech and complex technology, but we are not the only species of animal with unique characteristics.

Our anatomy is not...

Mal'ta Boy, whose Y haplogroup was R*, maybe spoke proto-Eurasiatic-Amerind, the common origin. He lived in Siberia about 24 kya. Studies have associated his genome with the genetic signature called...

The first steppe-related migrations up the Danube and down the Rhine probably introduced western (centum) IE languages to Europe. Perhaps by the time the migrants reached the upper Rhine they were...

Modern taxonomy is not based on behavioural differences, but on shared evolutionary history and increasingly on shared DNA. Are penguins no longer birds because they can't fly, live in cold...

Yes, probably Z2103, although PF7562 is also a possibility (based on the Y Full tree at FTDNA).

I hope they can extract DNA from the pulp in that molar, the genome would be very interesting.

Population estimates for these periods can only ever be approximate. McEvedy and Jones' estimates may be a little low in this case, although most of their other population estimates are generally...

According to the Atlas of World Population History (McEvedy and Jones), the estimated population of Ireland was "a few thousand" in the Neolithic, rising to 100,000 during the Iron Age. Scotland went...

Excellent. Now, even if my cryopreserved head is destroyed in a future apocalypse, my DNA preserved on the Moon will allow for my future clone to move to a habitable moon of Saturn before the Sun...