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André-Georges Haudricourt was born in 1911. He grew up on his parents’ farm, in a remote area of Picardie. He was curious of techniques, plants and languages from his early childhood. After he passed the Baccalauréat in 1928, his father advised him to enter the National Institute of Agriculture (Institut national agronomique), in the hope that he would obtain a prestigious position in the admin...

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I. Life and works Robert Boyle, natural philosopher, was born in 1627 to Richard Boyle and Katherine Fenton. Despite Robert Boyle's status as youngest son of a large family, his father's wealth, influence, and title (first Earl of Cork) afforded him an income and allowed him to devote himself to intellectual pursuits. The young Boyle's education included Eton and private tutoring (both at home ...

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Table S1: Robustness with different choices of K. We use two metrics: deviation (the smaller the better) and correlation (the larger the better). We simulated 10 two-way admixed individuals with λ = 1cM; using S = 2 and γ = 50 we infer the local ancestry using K = 5, 10, 20. In each cell, we put mean ± standard deviation. The larger standard error compare to Table 1 in main text because we use ...

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