When people talk about ancient ancestry, they usually talk about populations. Italians have roughly this much Neolithic farmer ancestry. Northern Europeans tend to have more Steppe-related ancestry. Parts of the eastern Mediterranean tend to show more ancestry ultimately related to ancient Near Eastern and Caucasus/Iran Neolithic–adjacent sources. These…
Your Genome Is an Archaeological Site, But We’re More Than a Mosaic of Ancestries
How ancient layers persist, and how selection reshaped them
