A steelman argument that Basal Eurasian is not a real ghost population, but a selection-induced distortion in f-statistics and admixture-graph fitting.
Basal Eurasian as a Mirage: A Steelman Case for “Ghost Ancestry” as Selection Artifact


A steelman argument that Basal Eurasian is not a real ghost population, but a selection-induced distortion in f-statistics and admixture-graph fitting.

A selection-aware re-read of human population trees and divergence times if cognition faced strong selection in the last 50,000 years.