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30 April 2014

General article on genetic-divergence date estimation

We don't seem to have a general/introductory article on the subject of haplogroup divergence time or other closely related senses of phrases like "genetic dating", "genetic timeline", "genetic time estimate", or a zillion other phrases that non-experts might search for (even more specific/informed ones like "haplogroup divergence") in trying to get the gist of how these estimates are arrived at, through what methods. But it's an important science topic, to which more and more people are vaguely exposed, though everything from personal DNA testing to popular-science news about fossil species and their classification. I know we have at least one specific-method article at Molecular clock, but this is quite unlikely to be found by anyone loosely digging around for the overall subject and not already aware of that exact term. And it is not the only method. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 09:29, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Genetic dating currently redirects to Genetic matchmaking, which seems reasonable for non-specialist uses of the term. I agree it would be good to have an overall article on methods for estimating age of events based on genetic data. --{{u|Mark viking}} {Talk} 18:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Weirdly specific short descriptions

I'm not a biologist, but the Android app is currently showing me articles on various genes/proteins. Most have the short description Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens. However, the first one I encountered was about a gene which turned out to be shared with fruit flies, and others I've briefly looked at give the location of the gene in both humans and mice, so I suspect that the description might be misleading on most of the articles it appears on. Musiconeologist (talk) 20:37, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please see also my query here, about an instance which I changed. Musiconeologist (talk) 21:01, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Haplotype 35 at AfD

Sometimes Y-DNA haplotypes get renamed, which means their articles ought to be moved. There are a lot of articles about individual Y-DNA haplotypes, but just one about an individual haplotype, Haplotype 35, and that article is at AfD because it lacked a good reference. I don't know whether the article ought to be kept, merged or deleted (although I was able to add a journal article making reference to it). I would appreciate it if someone could look at the haplogroup articles (Draft:Haplogroup O-M176 as well as Special:Allpages/Haplogroup and Category:Human Y-DNA haplogroups) and see whether anything can be done to improve them. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 15:18, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Colombia has an RfC

Colombia has an RfC for studies on genetic ancestry of Colombians. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 10:07, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Zoonotic origins of COVID-19#Requested move 14 December 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Zoonotic origins of COVID-19#Requested move 14 December 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 14:24, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]