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East African Climate on Hominin Evolution , Archaelogical evidence for...
East African climate pulses and early human evolutionAbstractCurrent evidence suggests that all of the major events in hominin evolution have occurred in East Africa. Over the last two decades, there...
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Statisitics on African born immigrants in the U.S.
I stumbled upon an interesting article in the WP that led me to a recently released brief by the US Census Bureau outlining some interesting stats on the growing demography of Africans in America.The...
View ArticleAssumptions on the genesis of artistic expression in humans shattered by...
Hand stencils and paintings of pigs found in Indonesian caves are cause for experts to rethink the genesis of artistic expression in humans according to a new publication in nature.Archaeologists have...
View ArticleNovel genomic signals of recent selection in an Ethiopian population
Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Adebowale Adeyemo, Guanjie Chen, Elena Hailu, Abraham Aseffa, Gail Davey, Melanie J Newport and Charles N RotimiAbstractThe recent feasibility of genome-wide studies of adaptation...
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SNP vs. STR YDNA TMRCA Estimation
An interesting comparison of YDNA TMRCA estimates using the SNP counting method and STRs (with both pedigree and Zhivotovsky rates as well as rho and ASD methods) can be found in a recently published...
View ArticleGenes & Language, Impact of Oldest Butchering Tools on Communication,...
A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populationsAbstractWorldwide patterns of genetic variation are driven by human demographic history. Here, we test whether this...
View Article'Smoking gun' found for the Out of Africa Theory
An Israeli anthropologist, Israel Hershkovitz, claims that he and his team have found the archaeological smoking gun for the Out of Africa theory, a theory which has been genetically reinforced for the...
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SNP based module added to the Y TMRCA calculator
The solely STR based Y TMRCA calculator now also can accept SNP based input to compute the TMRCA of a node. Instructions and methodology can be found within the app at the link...
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New NGS study of the Y DNA
A new Y-DNA study has appeared using Next Generation Sequencing, where ~9 Mb of the Y Chromosome was sequenced for 456 samples (299 of which were new) some preliminary observations are outlined...
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Revised Timeline and Distribution of the Earliest Diverged Human Maternal...
AbstractThe oldest extant human maternal lineages include mitochondrial haplogroups L0d and L0k found in the southern African click-speaking forager peoples broadly classified as Khoesan. Profiling...
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More Ethiopian Uniparental Data (More resolution.. less clarity)
A new paper attempting to decipher the out of Africa exit route by focusing on Ethiopian and Egyptian autosomal genetics was published a couple of weeks ago. Putting aside the 'hocus pocus' autosomal...
View ArticleSudan MTDNA
Find below relative frequencies for Sudanese MTDNA from a thesis entitled "Genetic Patterns of Y-chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Variation, with Implications to the Peopling of the Sudan", the entire...
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Improved resolution of E-M215 (aka E3b / E1b1b)
A new paper has appeared with a a focus on Haplogroup E, and mostly focused on E-M215 and E-M35, with a moderate level of improvement in resolution from what we used to know.Basically, at first glance,...
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Ugandan mtDNA
Unfortunately I can not find the detailed breakdown of the mtDNA frequencies for the populations sampled in the supplemental materials for this paper, and hence can not build my sortable frequency...
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