News from the cave known as Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, in Eastern Morocco, where for the past ‘four to five’ years, the Institute of Archaeology from Oxford University have been excavating, during the process of which they have discovered beads fashioned from shells.
The beads themselves comprise 12 Nassarius shells – Nassarius are molluscs found in [...]
June 4, 2007
82,000 Year Old Jewelry Found
June 4, 2007
Understanding Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome
I haven’t got much time to read the following paper, review and translate it for ya but P-ter of Gene Expression has and done so. The paper comes out of PLoS Genetics‘ press and is titled, Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome. You should be interested because P-ter calls this a “magnificent paper, [...]