American Journal of Physical Anthropology doi:10.1002/ajpa.20985 Regional differences in craniofacial diversity and the population history ...

There have been many Neanderthal stories this year. Here is a list: Did Cannibalism contribute to Neanderthal extinction? Archaeology magazi...

The major breakthrough of 2008 was the application of microarray technology to the problem of inferring ethnic ancestry. At the beginning of...

Am J Hum Biol. 2008 Dec 23. [Epub ahead of print] Searching for the origin of Gagauzes: Inferences from Y-chromosome analysis. Varzari A,...

A couple of new papers have appeared recently, which paint two different pictures of the gender gap in science/math ability. The New Scienti...

The most interesting aspect of this paper is that it supports a European rather than Middle Eastern origin of E-V13 and I-M243 based on an a...

Tourist discovers trove of 1,300-year-old coins in Jerusalem's City of David A British tourist working in an archaeological dig in Jerus...

From the paper: The ratio of the tMRCA between chromosome X and the autosomes in West Africans, 0.763 ± 0.026, is consistent with the expect...

Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008 Dec 11. Mitochondrial Haplogroups Associated with Elite Kenyan Athlete Status. Scott RA, Fuku N, Onywera VO, Bo...

Scientific American has an article on Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology . The Coda of the article: Among Darwin’s lasting le...

Hand-written Note Shows El Greco Defending Byzantine Style In Face Of Western Art A new investigation could end many of the speculations abo...

The discovery of such a large number of burials is a rare opportunity for an ancient DNA study of the Greeks of Sicily. The age of the sampl...

American Journal of Physical Anthropology Post-last glacial maximum expansion from Iberia to North Africa revealed by fine characterization ...

A good explanation from BBC News : Newcastle University researchers found men were more likely to have sons if they had more brothers and vi...

This paper is a winner in my book, if only for this statement: In addition, the Y-chromosome and mtDNA may both have been affected by natura...