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Unicorn Genome Published

Here is the final sentence of the abstract: “Look, if I told you that I keep a goat in the backyard of my house…, and if you happened to have a man nearby, you might ask him to look over my garden...

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The Story of Adam and Eve Revisited

Related paper: The ‘extremely ancient’ chromosome that isn’t: a forensic bioinformatic investigation of Albert Perry’s X-degenerate portion of the Y chromosome Mendez and colleagues reported the...

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Dan Graur’s Latest Bombshell and Implications for Jewish Genetics

The Oldest Y Chromosome that Wasn't from Dan Graur Yesterday Eran Elhaik and Dan Graur of ENCODE-fame published another ‘investigative science’ paper with two other colleagues, where they showed that...

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The ‘Right Way’ and the ‘Wrong Way’ to Criticize Science

————————————————————— Lior Pachter Every time we go to Lior Pachter’s blog, we start with the assumption that he is making a highly inflated claim. His titles seem too aggressive and the accusations...

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No Genomic Evidence of Khazar Origin for the Ashkenazi Jews?

Last year, we wrote about Eran Elhaik’s paper in - New Study Sheds Light on the Origin of the European Jewish Population Population Genetics Study on Khazar Origin of Jews is Back in Spotlight Those...

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Life of Soay Sheep and Relevance to Human Society

We spent our childhood hearing stories about various horrors and catastrophes, including tigers pulling away little children from play-fields or an entire village getting wiped out by cholera. They...

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New Method from Elhaik Can Find Your Ancestral Village or Island of Origin

A new paper from Eran Elhaik and colleagues is published in Nature Communications. It claims to have developed a population genetics algorithm that has the accuracy of mapping a person to his ancestral...

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Cross-post: The prestige of “Jewish Genome” papers

When, in early 2013, we covered Eran Elhaik’s paper on the origin of European Jewish population, he was treated everywhere like a pariah. Haldane’s Sieve blog, which supposedly posts all interesting...

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Renowned Human Geneticist Michael Hammer Shamed, Joe Pickrell Continues to...

In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act – George Orwell The same spirit applies to the world of population genetics. Needless to say, nobody likes a revolution and the...

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Fully Funded Bioinformatics PhD Position with a Very Smart Guy

Our blog covered Eran Elhaik’s work on human genetics many times (check here and here for example). He is very talented and creative. If you like to do PhD with him, he has an open position in UK. This...

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