How much did Y chromosome haplogroups shape our current picture of early modern humans?
Earlier this month I published a piece on Medium about our changing picture of modern human origins in Africa: “Three big insights into our African origins”....
All posts tagged with Y chromosome
Notable: Inheritance of fitness in patrilineal societies
Notable paper: Heyer, E., Brandenburg, J.-T., Leonardi, M., Toupance, B., Balaresque, P., Hegay, T., Aldashev, A. and Austerlitz, F. (2015), Patrilineal popu...
Chimpanzee communities are hundreds of years old
Kevin Langergraber and colleagues (2014) have undertaken a study of Y chromosome variation within chimpanzee communities of Uganda. Their goal was to estimat...
Diversity doesn't point reliably to source populations
Worth amplifying from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog, “Y chromosomes of the Bahamas”:
Y chronology awry
Dienekes links to and discusses a current paper by George Busby and colleagues Busby:peopling:2011 on the Y chromosome chronology for the settlement of Europ...
Founder effect
A founder effect is caused by genetic drift in a small number of initial founders of a new population.
Darwin's Y
The Telegraph has done a puff piece about the Genographic testing of Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson.
Mailbag: Y chromosome Adam
Hi John, I enjoy your blog very much. Ive been reading a lot recently on human origins and genetics (most recently, for example, Nicholas Wades book Before...
Mailbag: Y so extreme?
Re: Y chromosomes:
Quote: Dating the Y
Dienekes comments on a new paper that attempts to estimate the age of a Y chromosomal clade:
Connecting with your Bronze Age ancestors
The BBC has a story about Y chromosome matches between German Bronze Age skeletons and a couple of guys living in the same area now:
Y chromosome migrations and African pastoralism
Sharon Begley covers a recent paper by Joanna Mountain on Y chromosome migrations and African pastoralists:
Timing Y-chromosome STR evolution
Dienekes details his argument for why date estimates based on Y-chromosome STRs are overestimated. I’d like to see him publish it!