My recent analysis of the Yunusbayev et al. (2011) revealed an interesting anomaly: the Armenians_Y sample tested much more "Europea...

I think we need to get rid of the "affluent hunter-gatherer" paradigm altogether. There is no doubt that humans were well-adapted ...

Anthropol Anz. 2011;68(4):367-77. Secular trends in some Russian populations. Godina EZ Abstract Secular changes of body measurements in ch...

Excerpts from the conference site . Temporal differentiation across a West-European Y-chromosomal cline - genealogy as a tool in human popul...

AJPA DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21601 Reconstructing the diets of Greek Byzantine populations (6th–15th centuries AD) using carbon and nitrogen stab...

PLoS ONE 6(9): e25195. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025195 Does Lateral Transmission Obscure Inheritance in Hunter-Gatherer Languages? Claire ...

Ewen Callaway discusses ethical issues surrounding the publication of an Australian Aborigine full genome sequence from a hair sample coll...

I have often used Uzbeks as a convenient population to assess the extent of Central Asian Turkic admixture in West Eurasia. The recent Yunus...

Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2011 Sep 20. [Epub ahead of print] MtDNA SNP multiplexes for efficient inference of matrilineal genetic ancestry wi...

From the paper: The dominant haplogroup in the Dadianzi people was D4 shared by five individuals who were associated with four different hap...

This seems like a tie-in to another recent post on Neolithic and Bronze Age Ukraine . I don't think even a science fiction writer could ...

Aboriginal Australians (AA) have been somewhat of a black hole in population genetics research. So, it's great news that after today...

Table S2 from the paper ( pdf ) gives the Denisova admixture as a fraction of the Papuan New Guinea highlander Denisova admixture. It seemed...

This new paper is reminiscent of Li & Durbin (2011) , in that it also fits a model of ancient human demography based on individual genom...

There is a series of interesting papers on Amerindian populations in the early view section of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology...

Skull points to a more complex human evolution in Africa "[The skull] has got a much more primitive appearance, even though it is only ...