Methodology deep-dives, population spotlights, and engineering notes from the Ancestrify team, qpAdm modelling, ancient DNA panels, and how genetic ancestry analysis really works.
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Who the Anatolian Neolithic farmers were, how their ancestry spread across Europe from 6500 BC and became the largest component in most southern Europeans, what 'early European farmer' means in a model, and how to measure your share.
DNA from two women at Takarkori reveals a deeply rooted North African lineage and suggests Saharan pastoralism spread mainly through culture.
A study of 15,836 ancient and modern West Eurasians finds hundreds of genes under strong directional selection over the past ten thousand years.
Genomes from an 11,000-year-old site near Beijing reveal an unknown deep northern East Asian lineage and 2,000 years of change at one place.
qpAdm modeling shows modern Balkan populations carry varying proportions of Neolithic farmer and Bronze Age steppe ancestry, reflecting long-term regional continuity.