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Twelve years ago, for the first time, scientists sequenced a person’s genome. The cost was about $1 billion. Since then, the price has plummeted, and is now around $5,000. Soon, it will be less than $1,000, making

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The first interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals may have taken place in what is now Israel. Scientists report the discovery of a 55,000-year-old modern human skull in a cave in western Galilee. Named

George Bernard Shaw once opined that “the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” Nothing could be more true, as genetic genealogists know all too

Genetic genealogists seek guidance on which generation length is the most appropriate to use with TMRCA (Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor) tables when they want to multiply the number of elapsed generations by