Razib found this really fascinating paper which compares differences in gene expression between populations. The results of the study has been published in an open access paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The paper is titled, “Evaluation of Genetic Variation Contributing to Differences in Gene Expression between Populations,” and comes from researchers in [...]
February 29, 2008
Did Neandertals die off because of cannibalism and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies?
So there’s this hypotheses that Neandertal extinction was due to cannibalism. This is an alternative but complementary hypothesis to the climate change one. In an upcoming paper in Medical Hypotheses, Simon Underdown investigates this hypotheses by looking at Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). The paper is titled, “A potential role for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies in Neanderthal [...]
