PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412201111 Early modern human settlement of Europe north of the Alps occurred 43,500 years ago in a cold steppe-typ...

Mol Genet Genomics. 2014 Sep 26. [Epub ahead of print] Y-SNP L1034: limited genetic link between Mansi and Hungarian-speaking populations....

From the paper: Empirical evidence supports the contention that Levallois technology is an inherent property of the Acheulian that evolv...

The abstracts for the European Society for the study of Human Evolution meeting that just took place are available in this PDF .

It's great to see that the massive dataset of 23andMe was used for a study like this that seeks to capture the landscape of ancestry of ...

Nature 513, 414–417 (18 September 2014) doi:10.1038/nature13727 Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than ...

Genome Biol Evol (2014) doi: 10.1093/gbe/evu202 First Ancient Mitochondrial Human Genome from a Pre-Pastoralist Southern African Alan G...

Some interesting titles from the  ASHG 2014 conference. UPDATE: I have added the abstracts. The human X chromosome is the target of meg...

Jeffrey Rose and Anthony Marks have a preprint in which he details an archaeological scenario for the emergence of the Emiran (arguably the ...

The constant stream of discoveries from the Amphipolis tomb are fascinating. It is not often that one sees archaeology reported almost in ...

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Jack the Ripper unmasked: How amateur sleuth used DNA breakthrough to identify Britain's most notorious criminal 126 ...

Bell Beaker blogger points me to this excellent new review of the Eurasian Metallurgical Provinces scheme of Yevgeny Chernykh. I also inclu...

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics Vol. 15: 47-70 (Volume publication date August 2014) Determinants of Mutation Rate Variation...

A new preprint has just appeared on the bioRxiv. It's free to read so I'll just summarize some results. First: The haplotype of ...