The dating has been previously reported  in 2006. It would be interesting to see the analysis of the olive branch discovered in 2007. The er...

Annals of Human Genetics doi: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00493.x The Complex and Diversified Mitochondrial Gene Pool of Berber Populations C....

This paper uses a mutation rate of 1.008 base substitutions/nucleotid/billion years. See some discussion of mtDNA mutation rates here and h...

From the paper: Reconstructing human history requires an accurate picture of global human population structure [1]. However, methods current...

In a large collection of Y-chromosome haplotypes from a specific haplogroup and location, there are invariably a number of outliers, i.e., h...

Singapore Med J. 2008 Nov;49(11):940-943. The effect of ethnicity on facial anthropometry in Northern Iran. Jahanshahi M, Golalipour ...

The facial composite is from a previous blog entry : From the paper: We are able to show that average Korean head and face shapes differ sig...

Human Biology Volume 80, Number 3 Genetic Characterization and Assessment of Authenticity of Ancient Korean Skeletal Remains Hwan Young Lee...

Human Biology Volume 80, Number 3 Russian Old Believers: Genetic Consequences of Their Persecution and Exile, as Shown by Mitochondrial DNA...

The Christian Science Monitor has an article titled Being born in Greece may not make you Greek . Greece, like most European countries, does...

Continental human populations have very high allele frequency differences in several loci. One explanation for this phenomenon is that after...

From the paper: The expansion of the agricultural system on the map, as represented by the earlier Neolithic, was not uniform and regular ac...

From the paper: To shed light on the origin of the diverse haplogroups, we studied the distribution of the seven haplogroups in 17 modern po...

HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology doi: 10.1016/j.jchb.2008.06.005 Why did the frequency of palatine torus increase in the ancien...

This is a nice paper on European population structure with a large number of SNPs, which comes at the heels of some earlier studies: Genetic...

The total results were: 8 E3a-M2 (or 8.6% Sub-Saharan contribution) 6 E3b1-M78 40 E3b2-M81 5 J2f-M67 1 R1-M173 11 R1b3-M269 1 Q-M242 The pre...