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Historical population genetics @ Dienekes

Explore the follies and failures in historical population genetics and why researchers often miss key insights.

ByRazib Khan

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Dienekes has a nice post up on the follies and failures of historical population genetics. As he notes, part of the problem is that people really want to find x instead of !x, and with a statistical science that is really, really, bad.

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