ScienceInsider has some reactions to plans from the UK Border Agency to use DNA tests to verify claims of asylum seekers that they do in f...

I was planning on writing up a more complete narrative for this post, but I don't think the evidence is -as of yet- strong enough to sup...

Evolution and Human Behavior Volume 30, Issue 5, September 2009, Pages 342-350 Physical attractiveness and reproductive success in humans: e...

The arrival of R1b in the east remains a mystery. The few prehistoric samples that have been examined did not belong to it, but rather excl...

From the paper: The recent resolutions of the CDEF-M168 tripartite structure to the bipartite DE-YAP and CF-P143 [16, 31] extends the conver...

Έχω αναφερθεί τόσο εδώ όσο και στη Γενετική των Ελλήνων για το ζήτημα της Ελληνικής ιθαγένειας. Το ζήτημα αυτό δεν συζητείται καθόλου εν όψ...

Coming shortly after Bramanti et al. (2009) which discovered a discontinuity between Neolithic farmers from Central and Eastern Europe and ...

In lieu of a prologue, Herodotus and Arrian on the two groups inhabiting ancient India: Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Histories , Book 7: The ...

An interesting paper worth reading, which considers the idea that Homo sapiens can be subdivided to subspecies against two diametrically opp...

A fairly good review in English: The West’s Cultural Continuity: Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel (reviewed by Thomas F. Bertonneau): Long b...

Hum Biol. 2008 Dec;80(6):669-74. Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups in the Czech population compared to other European countries. Vidrová V, Te...

Related: Cranial morphology and population history Cranial anatomy and population history or climate adaptation Drift more important than se...

Hum Biol. 2008 Dec;80(6):655-67 History of the peoples of the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium: a craniometric point of view ...

Hum Biol. 2008 Dec;80(6):637-54. Contribution of genetics and environment to craniofacial anthropometric phenotypes in Belgian nuclear fam...

The two main sources of the Russian population are well known by genetic evidence , but it is nice to see the historical process of admixtur...

Francois Balloux has some scathing criticism on mitochondrial phylogeography as it is currently practiced (doi: 10.1038/hdy.2009.122). I re...