Denisovan ancestors of the Iceland population
Last week in Nature, Laurits Skov and collaborators from Aarhus University and from Kari Stefansson’s research group in Iceland gave a high-resolution look a...
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mtDNA selection in Iceland?
Leave it to me to have readers unwilling to ignore selection in recent populations! Here’s an e-mail:
Genetic drift eliminated rare mtDNA haplotypes from Iceland
How powerful has genetic drift been in recent human evolution? That’s the question I raised the other day with reference to the claim that a heart disease ri...