October 28, 2006

mtDNA of island Southeast Asia

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A new preprint has appeared in the American Journal of Human Genetics site about the mtDNA origins of island SE Asians. American Journal of ...
October 25, 2006

Blue-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women

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Eye spy a cheat BLUE-eyed men prefer blue-eyed women, apparently because eye colour can help reveal whether their partner has been faithful,...
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Korean mtDNA

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Electrophoresis . 2006 Oct 23; [Epub ahead of print] East Asian mtDNA haplogroup determination in Koreans: Haplogroup-level coding regi...

Realistic bust of Aristotle discovered

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Aristotle as he really looked A bust of Aristotle found beneath the Acropolis in Athens is the first to show the Greek philosopher with a ho...
October 24, 2006

Horse domestication news from Kazakhstan

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See also Botai and Horse Domestication . New evidence of early horse domestication Soil from a Copper Age site in northern Kazakhstan has yi...
October 22, 2006

IQ of Serbian Gypsies

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Intelligence (Article in Press) General mental ability in South Asians: Data from three Roma (Gypsy) communities in Serbia J. Philippe Rush...
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October 20, 2006

Skin tone and attractiveness

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This study seems to echo the results of a different German study which I posted a few years ago. According to the older study: Additional s...
October 19, 2006

Greek origins of some Pathans but not other Pakistanis

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A new article in European Journal of Human Genetics investigates the Greek ancestry of Pakistani populations that sometimes claim descent f...
October 18, 2006

Human species 'may split in two'

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BBC reports : Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years' time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary ...
October 17, 2006

Hereditary facial expressions

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Via the BBC and Scientific American and New Scientist . This idea makes sense: Peleg speculates that genes might influence the muscle and ...

Estimating the IQ of states of the USA

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From the paper: Intelligence (article in press) Estimating state IQ: Measurement challenges and preliminary correlates Michael A. McDaniel ...

Brain size is not a good indicator of the evolution of human intelligence

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Intelligence (Article in Press) The evolution of human intelligence and the coefficient of additive genetic variance in human brain size Ge...
October 15, 2006

Rio de Janeiro Y chromosomes

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See also Brazilian Y chromosomes . Am J Hum Biol. 2006 Oct 12;18(6):829-837 [Epub ahead of print] Y-chromosome genetic variation in Rio...
October 14, 2006

Discovering the ethnic roots of African Americans is difficult

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It's great that scientists are beginning to critically examine the tall claims of many companies offering DNA tests for genealogy and an...
October 12, 2006

Neolithic goats

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Goats Key to Spread of Farming, Gene Study Suggests Goats accompanied the earliest farmers into Europe some 7,500 years ago, helping to revo...
October 10, 2006

Study paints bleak picture of ethnic diversity

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By John Lloyd in London Published: October 8 2006 22:08 | Last updated: October 8 2006 22:08 A bleak picture of the corrosive effects of eth...