From the paper: Reported here are results from analyses of organic residues from sherds of pottery vessels from fifth- to seventh-millennium...

Public release : Analysis of the new sequence confirms that the mitochondria of Neandertal's falls outside the variation found in humans...

In retrospect, posting my E-V13/Ancient Greek colonization theory a week before the appearance of this article was a very timely move. I wa...

This study makes two contributions: First, it reports the discovery of a new major clade within the Y-chromosome phylogeny which unites many...

Molecular Biology and Evolution , doi:10.1093/molbev/msn167 Population Based Re-sequencing Reveals that the Flowering Time Adaptation of Cul...

Ken Nordtvedt has proposed an Interclade estimation method for Y-STR data with this basic idea: When we sample two alleles from a populatio...

A piece of evidence which suggests lineage-specific negative selection in human mtdna. The American Journal of Human Genetics , doi:10.1016/...

Columbia acquires 'Anabasis' epic : Columbia will turn the story of an ancient Greek military expedition into an epic action film. T...

The same people also published on pathogens and individualism/collectivism . Proc. R. Soc. B DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.0688 Assortative socia...

Sengupta et al. (2006) suggest a Paleolithic/Neolithic, pre-Indo-European, origin of most Hindu Y chromosomes. This inference is, however, ...

E-V13 is the main European clade of haplogroup E. It has been variously interpreted as a signature of early Balkan Bronze Age , or Mesolithi...

Complex clock combines calendars : The Antikythera Mechanism, a clockwork device made in Greece around 150–100 BC, astounded the world two y...

This is a continuation of my comments on How Y-STR variance accumulates . The story so far In my previous post I showed how the "evolut...

Since two subjects were heterozygous for the Thr(111) allele, its overall frequency in Greeks is 99.4%, within the range of 98.7% and 100% ...

Three individuals with mixed Caucasoid-Mongoloid affinities were an adult female (haplogroup C), 25yo male (haplogroup M), and 25-30yo male ...

Using Athey's haplogroup predictor, with equal priors and a threshold of 50 and probability of 90%, the following haplogroups were predi...