posts tagged with "recent"

• Third molar agenesis: a puzzling case of recent human evolution
  A meta-analysis gives a picture of the frequency that people don't develop third molars in many populations globally.
  03 Dec 2016
• My essay in The Scientist covers recent natural selection in humans
  Looking beyond single-gene selection toward the new evidence of selection on continuous traits.
  01 Aug 2016
• Link: Artifacts melting out of Norwegian glaciers
  Receding glaciers leave ancient artifacts behind in their wakes.
  17 Jan 2015
• Notable: Ancestry matters to ecogeography
  Bergmann's and Allen's rules apply to humans in a way that depends on the shared ancestry of different populations.
  02 Jan 2015
• Profile of Nina Jablonski and skin pigmentation
  Looking into the evolutionary history of human skin color.
  02 Dec 2014
• Selection and lactase persistence
  A reader asks how milk drinking could have led to a selective advantage; I answer.
  20 Sep 2014
• Upcoming events: Wisconsin Science Festival
  24 Sep 2013
• Mailbag: Genetics of schizophrenia
  03 Sep 2011
• HLA class-I loci in Neandertals and Denisova
  Abi-Rached and colleagues report that the human system owes much to the Neandertals and Denisovans.
  25 Aug 2011
• Y chronology awry
  24 Aug 2011
• Selection for smaller brains in Holocene human evolution
  Many human populations underwent reductions in endocranial capacity during the last 10,000 years, beyond the reduction expected from body size changes.
  22 Aug 2011
• Mailbag: Could autism genes be adaptive?
  17 Aug 2011
• Did Denisovans have genetic adaptations to high altitude?
  Noodling through the Denisova genome data for signs of candidate altitude adaptations.
  21 Jun 2011
• Rats in the radiocarbon (or vice versa)
  11 Jun 2008

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