The North African Neandertal descendants
A new paper by Federico Snchez-Quinto and colleagues reports on comparisons of North African population samples with the Neandertal DNA project data Sanchez-...
All posts tagged with population history
New data on Ashkenazi population history
Bray and colleagues Bray:Ashkenazi:2010 report on genotyping of 471 people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. This is one of the largest samples of a single human ...
French Neolithic discontinuities
Marie-France Deguilloux and colleagues Deguilloux:2010 present a short analysis of ancient mtDNA recovered from a Neolithic burial at Prissé-la-Charrière, be...
SNPtastic India
The cover story in Nature this week is a paper about the population history of India, from David Reich’s lab. It’s an important contribution to our knowledge...
Ceci n'est pas un pothole
In 2005 I wrote this:
Plumbing for bottlenecks
My series on mutual information and tests of selection (which began with "Information theory: a short introduction") is at a branching point. One of the crit...
Gene-culture models and reductionism
In the random corners of Google, I was led to a short 2004 letter in American Anthropologist by Daniel Wildcat, Irena Sumi and Vine Deloria, Jr. I found this...