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A Modern Human Genetic Adaptation for Diving

April 21, 2018

The Bajau people of Indonesia are known as “Sea Nomads,” because we’ve known that for thousands of years they live …

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Al Wusta Phalanxes Document Humans Travel East of Africa Earlier

April 10, 2018

Earlier this year we learned about the Misliya maxilla which pushed our understanding of out of Africa by 50,000 years. …

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Oldest Human DNA from Africa Clues Us On Ancient Moroccan Heritage

March 27, 2018

In 2015 the first African ancient genome of 4,500-year-old human remains found in Ethiopia were published. Now more ancient Africa DNA has been …

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Five Neanderthal Genomes Tell Us More Than Ever

March 25, 2018

We’ve been quite limited by our ancient DNA of Neanderthals due to limited sample size from the fossil record and …

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Is Genetics Changing Our Understanding Race?

March 25, 2018

The New York Times published a Sunday Review that I think you all will find a balanced opinion on genetics …

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Denisovans & Modern Humans Introgressed At Least Twice

March 19, 2018

Sharon Browning and colleagues published a paper in Cell last week that shows there are uniquely different Denisovan genomes in …

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The Yamnaya Horsemen & Root of Proto-Indo-European Language

March 15, 2018

Proto-Indo-European or PIE is the term coined for a ancestral language to the group of languages from Europe and parts …

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Australopithecus africanus Had Similar Dental Issues As Us

March 3, 2018

Ian Towle of John Moores University and colleagues published an interesting paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology that illuminates …

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How Was The Pacific Settled?

March 2, 2018

Two different studies in in Nature Ecology & Evolution and Current Biology looked at the genetic variation of people inhabiting Vanuatu …

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Intersection Of Ecology & Hunter-Gatherer Abundance

February 5, 2018

What happens when you get a archaeologist, an ecologist, and a paleontologist to in the same room to look at …

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