From BBC News : A Georgian cave has yielded what scientists say are the earliest examples of humans making cords. The microscopic fibres, di...

PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.0813258106 Warfare rather than agriculture as a critical influence on fires in the late Holocene, inferred from north...

I had posted when this appeared in AAPA 2008, and now the full paper has been published. Figure 1 shows the relationship between "col...

J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2009 May;18(5):633-6. The relationship between obesity and fecundity. Yilmaz N, Kilic S, Kanat-Pektas M, Gulerm...

Journal of Human Genetics doi: 10.1038/jhg.2009.81 Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Yayoi period human skeletal remains from the Doigahama sit...

Obesity (Silver Spring). doi:10.1038/oby.2009.282 Admixture Mapping of Obesity-related Traits in African Americans: The Atherosclerosis Ris...

A two-part video interview of Colin Renfrew; the discussion of Indo-European spans roughly 22:20 to 40:40 in the second part. Part I Part II

For the first part, see here . See Part I for another study on Ashkenazi Jews. We will have to look at the details of the study when it come...

There have been a bunch of studies on Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, but very little work on European Americans (i...

It's that time of year again. Here is a list of abstracts from ASHG 2009 that caught my attention in three broad areas. It will be very...