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A DNA profile cannot reconstruct an event
At 9:53 in Crime Junkie
Sources: National Institute of Standards and Technology (external site); Federal Bureau of Investigation (external site)
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What a missing CODIS match means
At 10:56 in Crime Junkie
Sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation (external site); US Department of Justice (external site)
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Genetic genealogy still needs confirmation
At 51:09 in Crime Junkie
Sources: US Department of Justice (external site); National Institute of Standards and Technology (external site)
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A GLI3 variant changed mouse skeletons, but not their digits
At 58:20 in The Joe Rogan Experience
Sources: Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology (external site); US National Library of Medicine (external site)
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What ancient genomes say about Pacific contact
At 1:53:02 in The Joe Rogan Experience
Sources: Nature (external site)
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Changing allele frequencies require a model of migration
At 3:13 in Dwarkesh Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site)
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An immune variant can suggest a historical pressure
At 19:17 in Dwarkesh Podcast
Sources: American Journal of Human Genetics (external site)
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An education-associated score is a statistical predictor
At 37:44 in Dwarkesh Podcast
Sources: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (external site)
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Absence of one sweep signature does not exclude evolution
At 1:02:38 in Dwarkesh Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site)
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Mitochondrial history is only part of ancestry
At 1:19:14 in Dwarkesh Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site)
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Deep structure does not uniquely identify an archaic population
At 1:33:44 in Dwarkesh Podcast
Sources: Nature (external site)
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A unifying story still needs independent tests
At 1:49:27 in Dwarkesh Podcast
Sources: bioRxiv (external site)