April 29, 2006

Y chromosome variation of Finns

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An interesting comprehensive new article on Finnish Y-chromosome variation. The main finding is that the arrival of Finno-Ugric speakers (po...
April 28, 2006

Early dates for Thera eruption

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New papers in Science reveal early dates for the eruption of the Thera volcano which was responsible for the demise of the Minoan culture. ...
April 27, 2006

Femininity/Masculinity predicts male but not female homosexuality

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A new article illustrates that masculinity-feminity of adolescents predicts sexual orientation in adulthood for males, but not for females. ...

Origin of Eastern Islanders

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Annals of Human Genetics (Online Early) Genetic Change in the Polynesian Population of Easter Island: Evidence from Alu Insertion Polymorph...

mtDNA of ancient Inner Mongolian tribe

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From the conclusions: The present study shows that the genetic structure of the Wanggu tribe is a complex matriline, involving the admixture...
April 25, 2006

It's hard to identify people from another race

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Racial feature similarity in eye of beholder by Iris Kuo excerpts: But such misidentifications aren't due to racism, said Roy Malpass, a...

Origin of the Shompen

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"The Shompen are the "other Nicobaris", an enigmatic tribe living in the densely forested interior of Great Nicobar. There...
April 24, 2006

Male-female differences in general intelligence

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Note the difference between males and females in the right tail of the distribution. Intelligence (Article in Press) Males have greater g ...
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April 23, 2006

Happy Easter

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Though you descended into the tomb, O Immortal, yet you destroyed the power of Hades; and you arose as victor, O Christ God, calling to the ...
April 22, 2006

mtDNA of Polish Roma

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Ann Hum Genet. 2006 Mar;70(2):195-206. Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in the Polish Roma. Malyarchuk BA, Grzybowski T, Derenko MV, Czar...
April 18, 2006

Mediterranean diet lowers risk of Alzheimer's

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Alzheimer's Risk Lowered by Mediterranean Diet in Study For each additional point to Mediterranean diet scores (indicating increased adh...

Neandertal and modern human lower jaw

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From the paper: Consistent with our hypothesis 1A, the present study found geographic patterning in recent human mandibular shape, despite c...
April 17, 2006

Fathers who aren't really the fathers of their children

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Does father know best? (EurekAlert): Anderson compared the paternity test results for men with high paternity confidence to the results for...
April 12, 2006

Disease mongering

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PLoS Medicine has a collection of articles on Disease Mongering (freely available). From The Fight against Disease Mongering: Generating Kn...

The ugly side of genetic ancestry testing

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From a New York Times article title Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests : Given the tests' speculative nature, it seems unli...
April 10, 2006

mtDNA of ancient Cumanians

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A few years ago, I had proposed a mechanism for the arrival of Mongoloid genes into Europe. A paper on the Cumanians illustrates how these ...