By Andi Thomaj
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How qpAdm changed ancient DNA: from one 2015 paper to the field's workhorse
qpAdm first appeared in the supplement of the 2015 steppe-migration paper and became the method behind a decade of ancestry headlines. Where it came from, what it settled, and how a decade of stress-testing sharpened its limits.
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