Anders Bergstrom: The five lineages of Holocene dogs

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Anders Bergstrom: The five lineages of Holocene dogs

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Nov 26, 2020

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On this episode of the Unsupervised Learning podcast, I talk to Anders Bergstrom about the new paper in Science, Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs, on which he is the first author.

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Nov 26, 2020

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Anders Bergstrom: The five lineages of Holocene dogs

Anders Bergstrom: The five lineages of Holocene dogs

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