Beyond bones & stones
Theis Jensen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Copenhagen, and colleagues, published a report in Nature Communications about a the finding of a South Danish Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed. This isn't the first time this was line of evidence was used, nor the oldest,... Continue Reading →
There's an interesting discussion brewing about on Dienekes' Anthropology Blog about the ancestral discord between the genetics and craniometric traits of native American populations. I wanted to point it out to all in case you don't subscribe to Dienekes. The discussion revolves around a rather new PLoS One paper addressing the observation that while native... Continue Reading →
In late May, Paul Sereno was in town to talk at the 2008 conference titled, 'Integrating Evolution, Development, & Genomics.' He was invited to also give a talk titled, "Living Lakeside in the Sahara: A Chronicle of Holocene Adaptation," to the Primate Biology Group. I eagerly attended. Paul Sereno, if you don't know, is primarily... Continue Reading →
