An extended reply to Mendez et al.: The 'extremely ancient' chromosome that still isn't

Eran Elhaik, Tatiana V. Tatarinova, Anatole A. Klyosov +1

Earlier this year, we published a scathing critique of a paper by Mendez et al. (2013) in which the claim was made that a Y chromosome was 237,000-581,000 years old. Elhaik et al.…