Earlier mixture from modern humans into Neandertal populations
The Neandertal storyline for the period from 70,000 to 40,000 years ago is increasingly a story of unremitting introgression from Neandertals into other popu...
All posts tagged with gene flow
Hunting the Denisovan belt
The other day I was having a long conversation about Denisovans and human origins. My friend suggested that “Denisovans” sound like some kind of Star Trek ci...
Mailbag: Latin words into Bantu
Re: “The genetic complexity of recent migration into southern Africa”
The genetic complexity of recent migration into southern Africa
Erika Check Hayden in this week’s Nature reports on a current preprint by Joseph Pickrell and coworkers from David Reich’s lab: “African genes tracked back”
Neandertal ancestry "Iced"
UPDATE (2015-10-21): This post has gotten some attention from social media recently, because Ötzi has been in the news. Later analyses have made clear that o...
Mailbag: Neandertal genes across the Strait of Gibraltar
Re: Neandertal gene variants in Yoruba:
Denisovan DNA in the islands, and an Australian genome
David Reich and colleagues today report on the persistence of Denisova-like ancestry in island Southeast Asia and Australia (citation not yet available). Mea...
Migration thinking
Murray Cox and Michael Hammer have a short commentary piece in the current BMC Biology, titled, “A question of scale: Human migrations writ large and small” ...
Quote: Peter Heather, migration is the great Satan
Peter Heather’s Empires and Barbarians begins with a chapter summarizing grand theories of demography and social transformation among near-prehistoric people...
Libidinous Neandertal men and the women who loved them
I keep seeing people, who really ought to know better, saying that the new Neandertal genome results show that the gene flow must have been Neandertal men ma...
NEANDERTALS LIVE!
I, for one, welcome my Neandertal ancestry.
What kangaroos do…
In the current issue of Heredity, Neaves and colleagues describe the results of their analysis of 12 microsatellite loci and the mtDNA of two kangaroo specie...
East meets West, and vice versa
Here’s a nice, symmetrical pair of stories:
Cultural impedance, demographic growth, effective population size
This is a complicated story with many interlocking parts. Telling the whole story may well take me fifty posts. There’s a lot of new science hiding in here w...
Genetic differentiation within Europe
Larry Moran tells an interesting personal story about long-distance gene flow among Roman-era elites in Europe (What does Marcus Antonius tell us about evolu...