#Admixture

Éadaoin Harney

Attention qpAdm users! I've been testing the performance of qpAdm (a tool for modeling population admixture) using simulated data, and I am excited to share what I have learned! The

Also let’s kill the idea that black Americans are also ‘mixed’ as the reason why biracial & racially ambiguous folks can solely identify as black. Admixture from slavery is in

Molle Guillaume

A new paper on pre-european contact between Polynesians and Native Americans is out today in Nature. I rarely do this on Twitter but regarding this is my area of expertise,

Some thoughts on the recent paper about Polynesian ancestry by Ioannidis et al. (Long thread.)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2 The paper investigates ancestry in present-day Polynesians using genetic data from 354 individua

To overly rely on science is to often discard things which cannot be easily described, measured, etc. By trying to formalize the known and the dim edges of the unknown,

What a moron!Mughal is nothing but Persian rendering of the word "Mongol"Genghis Khan and his immediate descendants who invaded Persia and India in 13th century were known as "Mughal Kafirs"

rally school dropout 🇩🇿

We got hoteps claiming that North Africa is black and then we have these people claiming we used to be white? Can we just catch a break lolhttps://twitter.com/Malthusian_Trad/status/1264951056146055170 btw we

1 #ISTC20 #Sesh9 The Sand Plover complex has long been a source of debate among taxonomists. This group is currently considered to be two species, each with numerous subspecies, but

Pallando the Blue

While I usually focus on Greek and Roman paganism on my channel, I thought I should make a post about the Basques and clear up some things that may need

𝔦 𝔬 - 𝔰 𝔞 𝔱 𝔲 𝔯 𝔫 𝔞 𝔩 𝔦 𝔞

Noticed that the r1b in Africa follows an extremely peculiar formation..... [cont] Then I remembered the flood map used to figure out that the Eye of the Sahara was the

Rapanui Pioneers Society

RapanuiPioneers

There seems to be a lot of fuzz about this article. Good thing @carlzimmer added the input of @MatisooSmith, renowned geneticist, and Pat Kirch and @HaunaniKane, real experts in Polynesia.

A thread about the DNA (as well as cranial and dental) evidence that shows that Egyptians are overwhelmingly indigenous. 1) this one is the easiestNational Geographic Genographic project that concludes

Sagittarian Mind™

SagittarianMind

For Venus in Pisces: love is boundless. Love is romantic. Love is imagination. Love is fantasy. Love is returning to the spiritual source. Love is not easily or clearly defined.

Moisès Coll Macià

I'm glad to announce that our paper with @SkovLaurits @mikkelschierup @Elise_Lucotte and co. about the nature of the introgressing Neanderthal is out!To find out more about it, you can read

Retired Golden Girl ✨ (black parents but biracial)

That social construct sure knows how to identify BW when it’s time to typecast them for slavery movies, call them apes, mock their “nappy hair”, watch them die of medical

Suede Santoro 👣

Neanderthals or Homo Neanderthalensis were archaic subhumans that existed 100,000 years ago in Western Asia. A degenerate seed of the Homo Habilis that migrated out of Africa into West/Central Asia