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Am I 100% Republican Roman? It depends.
My DNA tested against Iron Age Romans, Etruscans and northern Europeans
After testing ancient ancestry models of Italian genomes in my September 3 article, I wanted to put my own DNA through the same exercise. I had my 23andMe data, ancien...
Can personality polygenic scores travel across populations?
A country-level test of the ReGPC lead variants using WGS frequency, global genotype and European samples
Genes are one reason people differ in personality. Twin and family studies put the heritability of broad personality traits at roughl...
From Hunter-Gatherers to Romans: Testing Northern and Central Italian DNA
Breaking a modern genome into ancient ancestries is easy. Knowing when to trust the result is much harder.
Online ancestry reports love a dramatic cast list: Viking, Celt, Roman, Western Hunter-Gatherer, Anatolian Farmer. The percentages l...
My New Book Is Out: Buried in the Genome
I have come a long way since, as a teenager, I first encountered the maps of human genetic variation created by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and his colleagues. Their work opened the way for using DNA to reconstruct our migration histories and...
Did Farming Make Us Smarter? The Rice-and-Wheat Test
Ancient DNA from East Asia suggests that farming—not rice or wheat in particular—marked a turning point in an education-related genetic score.
Farming was a revolution in time. Foragers also planned ahead, but agriculture tied survival to...
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I have worked in population genetics for the last ten years, besides chronobiology, evolutionary psychology, creativity, and behavioural genetics. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals
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