October 16, 2008

"James, brother of Jesus" ossuary a fraud

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Exposing the 'Jesus' Brother' Fraud The discovery of the ossuary was hailed in some quarters as a spectacular archeological find...
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mtDNA haplogroup J not associated with Ashkenazi Jewish centenarians

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Table 1 has haplogroup frequencies in Ashkenazi centenarians and controls, and Table 2 from Ashkenazi Jews of various origins. PLoS ONE d...
October 15, 2008

Why did Neanderthals have broad noses?

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Neanderthals had a generally wide nose opening. In recent humans, such a feature is found mainly in the inhabitants of equatorial regions, w...
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October 14, 2008

Altruism and sexual attractiveness

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Altruism towards non-relatives is often explained within the framework of Robert Trivers' reciprocal altruism. What this paper demonstra...
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Out of Africa via Libya and not the Nile?

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Which way 'out of Africa'? New evidence provides an alternative route 'out of Africa' for early humans The widely held belie...
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Y chromosomes of Neolithic cattle do not suggest hybridization with European aurochsen

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A previous study ( pdf ) had proposed that there was Y-chromosome evidence for introgression of native European Y-chromosomes into Neolithic...
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October 13, 2008

Oldest human (Homo heidelbergensis) footprints

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.026 Oldest human footprints dated by Ar/Ar Stéphane Scaillet et al. Abstract...

Estimating TMRCA for a pair of Y-STR haplotypes using Average Squared Distance (ASD) cont'd

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This is a continuation of On the use of average squared distance (ASD) to estimate the time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of a pair...
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October 12, 2008

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

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A new beautification software that transforms a face to make it more attractive while maintaining its "individuality" and recogniz...
October 11, 2008

Female voice pitch and ovulation

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Biol Lett. 2008 Oct 8; Vocal cues of ovulation in human females. Bryant GA, Haselton MG Recent research has documented a variety of ovulato...
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October 10, 2008

Intelligence predicted by brain structure and function

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J Neurosci. 2008 Oct 8;28(41):10323-9. Multiple bases of human intelligence revealed by cortical thickness and neural activation. Cho...

Stonehenge controversy continued

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Mark Pitts was involved in the Stonehenge Decoded documentary. See the previous entry on Stonehenge was built in 2,300BC and may have been ...
October 09, 2008

Intelligence in childhood and adult voting preferences

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There was another recent post on political orientation and IQ . I don't know much about British politics, but both Liberal Democrats and...
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A large secondary structure of human mtDNA

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Geneticists often use an abstraction of DNA as a linear sequence of nucleotides, but in fact it is a three-dimensional structure with intere...
October 08, 2008

(Lack of) intelligence in childhood and psychological distress in adulthood

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Intelligence doi: 10.1016/j.intell.2008.09.002 Intelligence in childhood and risk of psychological distress in adulthood: The 1958 National...

Some comments on Steve Jones and human evolution

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Leading geneticist Steve Jones says human evolution is over Human evolution is grinding to a halt because of a shortage of older fathers in ...
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