All posts tagged with population sinks

Local adaptation in population sinks

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Different populations of humans live at markedly different densities. Human populations historically have had very different growth rates. Although Pleistoce...

Live fat die young, bearwise

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This story describes research on the longevity and maturation of wild bears who have invaded urban habitat in Nevada:

Sample sizes and the "Neandertal haplogroup"

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I have an excellent e-mail question about last week’s Neandertal mtDNA paper, which has provoked a lot of commentary.