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New paper just dropped today on the pre-Hispanic period of the Americas. Villa-Islas et al 2023 "Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico" Science380, 598 (2023)12 May 2023. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add6142

Posth et al 2023 "Paleogenonomics of Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic European Hunter Gatherers" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05726-0 Villalba_Mouco et al 2023 " A 23,000 year old southern Iberian Individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last...

Professor Lee Berger just put this out on twitter. He is going to Denmark for a "science" reason and has some important results to announce. As to what those might be, nobody knows. https://twitter.com/LeeRberger In a youtube discussion from about 2 months ago which is linked linked below...

New paper in Current Biology "Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean" in Current Biology 8 December 2022 by Kopetink et al. A quick reading of the paper suggest some new samples not yet published. The paper already...

For Fans of Martin Scorsese and his movies, of Which I count myself being one, Ray Liotta who was in Goodfellas passed away today in his sleep at 67. Very sad.

New Paper on Neolithic Maltese Genomes Ariano et al 2022 "Ancient Maltese genomes and the genetic geography of Neolithic Europe". Current Biology. Readers digest summary per Figure S1, Neolithic Maltese cluster with Neolithic populations from Central and Southern Europe Neolithic samples. If a...

Good evening: I have some questions about FTDNA Y DNA Big Y. I uploaded my Ancestry DNA and have a kit number there as I found out here FTDNA has a good 3 factor model for estimating European HG, Neolithic Early European Farmer and Steppe ancestry. I see on my account that it states I have some...

New preprint paper that looks interesting. I don't think it has any new samples, but the methodology they used to point to earlier connections (gene flow) between Anatolian and HG seemed interesting. Leo Speidel, Lara Cassidy, Robert W. Davies,Garrett Hellenthal, Pontus Skoglund, Simon R...

Hello everyone. I am not one for starting threads but Mt Etna is currently erupting. Both beautiful and scary at the same time. Check out the Live Stream on Youtube Local Team which is live as of 16 February entitled Eruzione Etna, emissione di cenere: diretta video

Angela/Ygorcs/Jovialis and other Mods: This is a really interesting study that just came out, lots of the heavy hitters and players involved. It relates to COVID-19 and Neanderthals! Very interesting. I will defer to you or the other advisors on where this goes in a thread. Do we have any...