December 06, 2005

Dual origins of the Japanese

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Very interesting paper on Y-chromosomal variation in Japan and neighboring regions. Haplogroup frequencies: Japan 259; northeast Asia ( NEA ...

The hubris of the humanities

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Worth reproducing in its entirety: The hubris of the humanities The New York Times December 6, 2005 The Hubris of the Humanities By NICHOLAS...
December 05, 2005

Waterways and the Neolithic

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The authors of this paper present a model which considers the effect of waterways (rivers) in the spread of the Neolithic. According to thei...

Y-chromosome diversity in East Asia and Oceania

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This chapter is a comprehensive review of Y-chromosomal diversity in East Asia and Oceania. It should come in useful to those (like me) who ...
December 03, 2005

mtDNA of Neolithic Siberians from Lake Baikal

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A new article for the Ancient DNA Compendium . Geneticists have studied the genetic structure of Neolithic Mongoloids from the Lake Baikal r...

Differentiation of Indian Proto-Australoids

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Am J Phys Anthropol. 2005 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print] Microsatellite diversity reveals the interplay of language and geography in shap...

mtDNA and Y chromosomes of Ibiza

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Am J Phys Anthropol. 2005 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print] Differential maternal and paternal contributions to the genetic pool of Ibiza Is...

mtDNA of Aleuts and Circumpolar populations

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Am J Phys Anthropol. 2005 Dec 1; [Epub ahead of print] Genetic structure of the Aleuts and Circumpolar populations based on mitochondrial D...

Ages of R1a1

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(in kya) Balkans : 15.8 India : 14.0 Oman : 11.4 Eastern Europe : 11.4 South Siberia : 11.3 Anatolia : 8.9

Sperm motility in mtDNA haplogroup U

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From the article: Comparison of the sperm motility and vitality between the different U sublineages revealed statistically significant diffe...

Evolutionary psychology of Facial beauty

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A comprehensive review of the literature; should be useful for anyone interested in this subject. Annual Reviews of Psychology Vol. 57: ...
December 02, 2005

More on the Cohen modal haplotype

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A few days after my previous post on the Cohen modal haplotype, here is an abstract from the October ASHG meeting which essentially confirm...

Annual Meeting of the AAPA 2006

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The annual meeting of the AAPA is still months away, but the list of titles of posters and papers is available online. Here are some intere...
December 01, 2005

Not footprints after all...

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The 40,000-year-old footprints from Mexico that I had blogged about earlier turn out to be >1 million year old and hence, are probably ...

Academic catfight in the pages of Intelligence

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Read also: How to settle the question of the racial IQ gap and Richard Lynn's Massaged IQ Data Editorial note on controversial papers D...

Autosomal analysis of Japanese and neighboring Mongoloids

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Human Genetics (Online early) Phylogenetic relationship of the populations within and around Japan using 105 short tandem repeat polymorphi...