Dating admixture with DATES and ALDER: when did the mixing happen?
qpAdm says how much; linkage-disequilibrium decay says when. How DATES and ALDER read generation counts out of chromosome fragment lengths, what the dates mean, and how a date corroborates or breaks a qpAdm model.
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