Tag: European population
For the Irish, the closest DNA match is with the Basques
The US-based online publication Irish Central, dedicated to the Irish all over the world, has brought back an article on the Basque roots of...
In Sardinia, the largest genetic heritage is from the “first Europeans”,...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Paolo Virtuani in the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera has just written that on Sardinia, the oldest DNA...
The Basque shepherd dog, a very old and intelligent breed (a...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
A while back, we blogged about this race of dogs. We’re doing so again today because of an...
The survival of the Basque language: can it be explained by...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
This is what was insinuated by the authors of a study published on Thursday in PLOS Genetics and...
The oldest map in Western Europe discovered in a cave in...
We’d like to bring to you today a piece of news that was published before this blog existed, but which we think is extraordinarily...
Basques are from “the day before yesterday”, or science and populism
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Note: a few days after writing this, we couldn’t resist bringing back a story on another article in...
The Basques make up “the great exception to all the laws...
There are times when we are completely taken aback by our complete ignorance (that of those writing here) of fundamental aspects of our culture...
The Basque paradigm: the debate about Basque specificity is over
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Basques don’t have any relevant genetic differences with Spaniards. That’s what was published just over two years ago...
The Basques, a people with more than 15,000 years of history,...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Today, we’re going to make one of those exceptions we like so much. We’re going to break our...