What is ancestry? [2016]

[Note: This is a modified version of a blog post I initially wrote in 2016. I'm moving this to my own domain so that I can easily find/link to it.] Anyone who has used commercial genetic testing products like those offered by 23andMe and AncestryDNA is familiar

Why publish science in peer-reviewed journals? [2011]

[Note: I wrote this post on the now-defunct Genomes Unzipped blog in 2011. I'm moving this to my own domain so that I can easily find/link to it.] The recent announcement of a new journal sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and