Methods library · Data and inference

Detecting introgression (D statistic)

Also called ABBA-BABA, admixture

Testing whether two populations exchanged genes from an excess of shared derived variants or long shared segments.

Watch A Positive D Is Not Proof · 2:50

A schematic drawn in code, narrated by an AI narrator voice (Gemini, Charon) reading narration written from the lesson's text. First made for the lesson Human Evolutionary History.

Where it is taught

2 lessons use this method.