Tag Archives: mitochondrial DNA
What the DNA Bill needs
The following article has been published in The Wire, but since it began as a blog post and because I haven’t published anything else in a while, I’m using it here as well. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on S&T, Forests … Continue reading
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Tagged Covaxin, COVID-19 vaccines, Covishield, crime scene investigation, DNA Bill, forensic science, jagatguru complex, Jairam Ramesh, mitochondrial DNA, nuclear DNA, scientific evidence, two-finger test
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Scientific fact? Not good enough to be true.
Last week in India: Two scientists who coauthored two papers, along with many others from India as well as abroad, have spoken out against the conclusions of those papers even as they refused to distance themselves from their findings. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Aryan migration, Caspian grasslands, Caspian steppes, caste system, European steppe, genomic analysis, haplogroup R1a1a, Harappan civilisation, Indo-Aryan migration, Indus valley civilisation, mitochondrial DNA, Rakhigarhi, Rig Veda, Saraswati river
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