Ashkenazi Anxieties: A Transnational Social History of Jewish Genetic Admixture Modeling, 1971-1986.

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During the late 1970s and early 1980s, population geneticists sought computational solutions to integrate greater numbers of genetic traits into their debates about the ancestral relationships of human groups. At the same time, geneticists' longstanding assumptions about Jewish communities, especially Ashkenazim, were challenged by a series of social, political, and intellectual developments. In Israel, the...

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