Link: Essay overview of paleogenetics of ancient migrations
Last September, Aeon published a useful essay by science writer Jacob Mikanowski, touching on many of the ways that ancient DNA is changing the way we look a...
Last September, Aeon published a useful essay by science writer Jacob Mikanowski, touching on many of the ways that ancient DNA is changing the way we look a...
Mark Stoneking and Johannes Krause present a review article in the current Nature Reviews Genetics Stoneking:Krause:2011 that gives an overview of the scienc...
Last week, Nature ran a story by Ewen Callaway Callaway:Neandertal:2011 that hits the highlights of research on ancient genomes this year: “Ancient DNA revea...
Re: Denisova:
I, for one, welcome my Neandertal ancestry.
I got to writing about a story a couple of years ago, and then stalled out. That happens every so often – remember, most of my research-related entries are m...
In this week’s copy of Nature, Johannes Krause and colleagues Krause:Denisova:2010 report on the complete mitochondrial sequence of a pinky bone from Denisov...
I was really busy meeting awesome people and making new friends in Georgia this week. So, although I got to read and think about the Greenland ancient genome...
Where did leprosy come from as a human pathogen, and how did it spread through the world? Two years ago, this new research would have merited a whole book. N...
I feel like I’ve been transported into the future to see what science will be like fifteen years from now: