From the paper: Here, we demonstrate for the first time a robust association between cultural values of individualism–collectivism and allel...

Ann Hum Biol. 2009 Oct 25. [Epub ahead of print] Human mitochondrial DNA variation in Southern Italy Ottoni C, Martinez-Labarga C, Vitelli...

Related: Wikipedia article on the Vix Grave . Covered elsewhere: Greeks uncorked French passion for wine . Ancient Greeks introduced wine to...

Genes Immun. 2009 Oct 22. [Epub ahead of print] European population substructure correlates with systemic lupus erythematosus endophenotype...

Stephen Oppenheimer is quoted in the Times Online in regard to some comments that BNP leader Nick Griffin recently made about indigenous Br...

From the paper: Perhaps our most interesting demographic results are the inferred divergence times. Other studies [11],[12] have estimated d...

This very interesting paper shows that there exists sexual dimorphism in facial contrast, with women having higher-contrast faces than males...

Kosrae has a population of about 7 thousand, so the finding that most of the European ancestry in this population can be traced to one 19th...

A good related Wired News story on Why Pygmies are Small CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY Volume 50, Number 5, October 2009 DOI: 10.1086/605429 Stature...

World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics ...

The finding that homosexual men prize masculine males faces and homosexual women prize masculine female ones seems consistent with the idea ...

The paper uses the evolutionary mutation rate, which, as I have argued elsewhere overestimates time to most recent ancestor (TMRCA) by abou...

In 1939, Carleton Coon wrote the Races of Europe . In it, he used the "skulls and pots as migrations" paradigm of his times, to in...

PLoS ONE doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007447 Updating Phylogeny of Mitochondrial DNA Macrohaplogroup M in India: Dispersal of Modern Human in ...

Just a quick heads up on this open access paper which seems very important in that it tests a very large number of Y-STR markers on a well-k...