According to a new preprint by Durvasula and Sankararaman (D+S): Using this method, we find that ~7.97±0.6% of the genetic ancestry from ...

The sensational discovery of modern humans in the Levant 177-194 thousand years ago should cause a rethink of the currently held Out-of-Afri...

I've argued for a similar scenario for years, so it's nice to see a preprint on the topic. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2...

A great new study on the genetics of human (including African) pigmentation. I would love to see a future study that would reconstruct wha...

This is hardly surprising, as there is an obvious evolutionary advantage for people being able to "read faces" not only for sexu...

It is great to finally see the first data from the most ancient Greeks (Mycenaeans) and also the Cretan Minoans: Ancestrally. both Myce...

The authors interpret the new result from HST as placing a lower boundary on an introgression from Africans to Neandertals at more than 29...

I had previously called Irhoud 1 "The Father of Mankind" and proposed a "two deserts" theory of human evolution whereby ...

Fascinating if true. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry , Vol. 17, No 1, (2017), pp. 233-250 DECODING GÖBEKLI TEPE WITH ARCHAEO...

The authors claim that these archaic humans from China show parallels to both modern eastern Eurasians (Mongoloids) and to Neandertals. The ...