PLoS ONE 6(8): e22547. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022547 The Genetic Structure of the Swedish Population Keith Humphreys et al. Patterns of ...

Interesting tidbit from the paper: By comparing the AfAdm map to existing maps, we were able to make several observations: (i) there is evid...

Jesse Bering argues in Scientific American that the extension of marriage rights to homosexuals may lead to a decline of the homosexual pop...

iGENEA is a Swiss ancestry analysis company which I had deservedly mocked a couple of years ago because of its ridiculous claims. In my exp...

A podcast with the author . Science 29 July 2011: Vol. 333 no. 6042 pp. 560-561 DOI: 10.1126/science.1208880 When the World’s Population To...

AJPA DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21564 Evaluating microevolutionary models for the early settlement of the New World: The importance of recurrent gen...

I haven't read this paper yet, but, as I pointed out recently, the numerical superiority of a population A over another B does not nece...

Another recent related study on the origin of Sorbs . BMC Genetics 2011, 12:67doi:10.1186/1471-2156-12-67 Population-genetic comparison of ...

It's been more than 3 years that I started the non-commercial autosomal ancestry analysis field with the release of EURO-DNA-CALC. Toda...

If anyone knows what marker they're talking about, leave a comment. Here's the address of the event , so if anyone is in Wrexham or...

This paper has been sitting on my todo pile for quite a while now. It could very well be described as the most detailed study of human varia...

I was a little disappointed because the excellent new paper by Li and Durbin had not included full genomes from Palaeoafrican individuals, ...

J Anthropol Sci. 2011 Jul 1. [Epub ahead of print] Craniofacial morphology in Austrian Early Bronze Age populations reflects sex-specific m...

I will update this blog entry when I read the paper. In the meantime, see Nature News and New Scientist . UPDATE I From the supplementary m...

Olympia Hypothesis: Tsunamis Buried the Cult Site On the Peloponnese Olympia, site of the famous Temple of Zeus and original venue of the Ol...

Razib points me to a couple of new papers on the ancestry of Afro-Indians. The finding of admixture is not that interesting in itself; for ...