From the paper: The database contains distributions representing 90 populations (N = 16,751 males) by the frequencies of the published a...

I haven't read this, but the idea seems to be that variation between Africans in Neandertal admixture can be wholly explained by recent ...

I had recently mentioned Zheng He on account of his Y chromosome. Great Voyages: Zheng He Pompeii Lecture Series: Mount Vesuvius in...

The admixture results nicely presented on a map: The authors note that none of the ancestral components peaks in Central Asia, concludi...

This seems to present an alternative method for capture of ancient DNA libraries than the one used on the Tianyuan individual. It is mostly...

Quite remarkable that a Persian (Sayyid Ajjal) would leave many descendants in faraway China, and one of this descendants (Zheng He) would o...

I had blogged about this conference a year ago, and a few people seem to be tweeting from it. Here is one intriguing tweet : Wllierslev...

Science 18 October 2013: Vol. 342 no. 6156 pp. 326-331 DOI: 10.1126/science.1238484 A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the...

An interesting new paper on the arXiv. The title focuses on three star-like Neolithic expansions that account for ~40% of the modern Chine...

A previous article had determined that Napoleon I had belonged to Y-haplogroup E-M34*, and a new one designates his haplogroup as "M...

I added the results in my compendium . BMC Evolutionary Biology 2013, 13:216 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-216 Y Chromosome analysis of pr...

Two important new papers appeared in Science today. In the first one ( Brandt, Haak et al. ), researchers compiled mtDNA results from 364 pr...

Thus concludes a new study which conflicts with the identification of blood from a handkerchief presumed to be from the execution of Louis...

From the paper: If we allow for the possibility that K1a9 and N1b2 might have a Near Eastern source, then we can estimate the overall fr...

Proof of human migration from Sweden to Poland during the Early Bronze Age During the Early Bronze Age there was a very high level of ter...