From the paper, first a survey of other studies: The Maikop cranium from Mandzhikiny I in Kalmykia was measured by A.A. Khokhlov. In hi...

Nature 498, 483–486 (27 June 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12267 Elastic energy storage in the shoulder and the evolution of high-speed throwin...

A 700.000 year old horse gets its genome sequenced It is nothing short of a world record in DNA research that scientists at the Centre fo...

An extensive English summary of an article in Russian by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov almost 30 years since the publication of their original book...

A reader alerts me to this research summary from a German government site ( pdf ). The research covered seems to be that of Joachim Burger ...

From  The Maikop Singularity: The Unequal Accumulation of Wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe? by Philip L. Kohl (in Social Complexity...

An interesting quote from the paper: Although the genetic heritage of the native populations of Sakha is mostly of East Asian ancestry, a...

I will simply note that the authors use the effective mutation rate that is ~1/3 the genealogical mutation rate and hence their age estima...

arXiv:1306.1652 [q-bio.PE] On the accumulation of deleterious mutations during range expansions Stephan Peischl et al. We investigate the...

arXiv:1306.4021 [q-bio.PE] Reconstructing Native American Migrations from Whole-genome and Whole-exome Data Simon Gravel et al. Ther...

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 2013; 33: 1722-1727 Male-Specific Region of the Y Chromosome and Cardiovascular Risk ...

Interesting commentary by the author of a 1988 undergraduate thesis that revolved around re-measuring part of Morton's skulls and concl...

My own half-baked idea is that because humans have longer childhoods and are very dependent on their mothers during their childhoods, there...

William has a hint of Indian in his DNA, find British researchers Researchers have sourced William’s Indian ancestry to Eliza Kewark, his...

Microsatellites may be a little "retro" in the age of million-SNP arrays and whole genome sequencing, but one has to admit that th...

My own opinions on this matter have been repeated ad nauseam in this blog, so I will only briefly touch on a couple of points in this new ar...