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Re: Bronze Age spread of R-U106 from ancient DNA


 

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There is always the Journal of Genetic Genealogy, as a sort of halfway house between a blogpost and a formal scientific paper.

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It does have an editorial board, of course.? But I can think of a few papers in its past that have appeared in its contents - which are basically the desires of the author to leave a document visible in the public domain which captures his mathematical ideas (they are almost always men) on mutation rates related subjects. I suspect now unread by anyone.

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Otherwise, I¡¯m with Debbie on this point.? You see enough times on Wikipedia articles the phrase [citation needed].

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Brian ?

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Debbie via groups.io
Sent: 04 January 2025 19:06
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [R1b-U106] Bronze Age spread of R-U106 from ancient DNA

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Wikipedia is not the place for publishing original research. It is an encyclopedia which collates material from reliable published sources. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that there should be no original research:

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Best wishes

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Debbie Kennett

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roy via groups.io
Sent: 28 December 2024 20:02
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [R1b-U106] Bronze Age spread of R-U106 from ancient DNA

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Your modesty aside, I don't think that a paragraph for a Wikipedia article would be subject to the same rigorous review as an academic journal. Or at any rate the custodians would be more open to discussion. To illustrate the point, in order to confirm my descent from an illegitimate son of the architect Sir William Bruce, I had to do a deep dive into the records. When I was satisfied that the link was confirmed by better than a preponderance of evidence, I added the information to the Wikipedia article on Bruce. Nobody raised any objections.

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Moreover, I would suggest that a judicious leveraging of AI could push your project forward at a rate you might not have anticipated otherwise. I am using it for my physics projects and am rewriting the Yback machine in Python thanks to AI to incorporate libraries used in academic research.

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Cheers, Roy

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On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 at 13:42, Iain via <gubbins=[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Roy

If I thought I could write something on the topic that would get past peer review, I would try! This is many steps below that, and it's not just references that are needed. A much more mathematical model to deal with these issues is sorely needed, but to create one properly would take me, I think, a second PhD. For now, this is just my garden-shed tinkering, given to the group in the hope of provoking discussion and raising interest.

Cheers

Iain.

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