Tag: Genetics
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...
The people of Antioquia, Colombia are not “as Basque” as they...
We've had the pleasure of discussing the Colombian department of Antioquia an its very active Centro Vasco on numerous occasions. Today, we get to again because...
The “Basque influence” on the prehistory of Easter Island
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
A while back, we blogged about the story of the king of the Moluku Islands who, in the...
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...
From Texas: The Soul of San Sebastian Described in an Extraordinary...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
We first met J.C. Reid at the beginning of 2013 thanks to his amazing article on Bilbao on...
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...