genealogy
Top 10 discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2023
This year's highlights include ways of finding ancient relatives, how some phenotypes evolved in ancient people, and trace evidence from artifacts.
When did humankind's last common ancestor live? A surprisingly short time ago
The lines of genealogy of living people converge quickly into the past. Our last genealogical common ancestor lived within the last few thousand years.
An update to the 23andMe ancestry algorithm, how it constructs a model of ancestral populations
A blog post from the company describes for beginners how ancestry inference works.
