Nothing really new in this paper, but the figure of the different models of human evolution is interesting. I have issues with the model of ...

Journal of Archaeological Science doi:10.1016/j.jas.2008.09.006 THE FACE OF THE POET DANTE ALIGHIERI RECONSTRUCTED BY VIRTUAL MODELLING AND...

See also the Historicity of the Trojan War and The eclipse of 1178BC and the return of Odysseus to Ithaca Discovery of Bronze-Age `Refriger...

How the barbarians drove Romans to build Venice : Historians agree that the explanation is that Venice was founded on the islands by refugee...

Viking Age Triggered by Shortage of Wives? : Sept. 17, 2008 -- During the Viking Age from the late eighth to the mid-eleventh centuries, Sca...

I realized today that there was a central error in my assumptions today on the entire Y-STR series. This error related to the condition I us...

This is a very early prototype of things that may be possible in the future. The DNA-based evidence was limited to pigmentation, as far as I...

Lactase non-persistence seems to be more important in the south and east of Great Britain. European Journal of Human Genetics doi: 10.1038/...

I had blogged about this model before. From the earlier paper: Bayesian skyline plots, which provide dynamic representations of population ...

From the paper: Nevertheless beyond such a treacherous ideology, we need boundaries, since we need clusters both to achieve group-oriented d...

This is a fairly technical paper which should be of interest for those interested in uniparental markers and their age estimation. Genetics ...

In case you are skeptical about my gloomy assessment of the power of genome-wide association studies, here is Nicholas Wade in today's ...

Since the announcement of the price reduction of the 23andMe service, I had a couple of readers e-mail me, asking whether I thought it was ...

Here is how to test your own craniofacial height / standing height ratio. Take a picture of yourself facing the camera, looking forward. A g...

Caption for figure: 1. Lean (L - narrow shoulders, thin torso and extremities, knee and elbow joints thicker than thy and arm diameter). 2. ...

Once again, the 0.00069/locus/generation rate is used in this paper, and hence its estimated ages are wrong . The given Y-STR variance for h...