If Will Barrie's work holds up, which it should, we should start calling him "Doctor" sometime oh, maybe 8:01 AM Monday morning. The full preprint is arxiv'ed and Razib has highlights.
Here are 317 new ancient genomes from the Mesolithic/Neolithic, allowing us to study the major transition from hunter-gathering to farming in Europe
. Remember Mal'ta Boy and how he showed direct ancestry which, formerly, was only surmised through cross-reference between ancient Siberians, Indo-Europeans, and Native Americans? There are many, many Mal'tas in this collection.
I don't know that it's revolutionary inasmuch as the genetics / ancestry folks have been talking about these groups all through the 2010s or before; but it certainly constrains the outliers.
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