The Effect of Diet Changes and The Selection of European Fatty Acid Desaturases
UC Berkeley Integrative Biologist, Rasmus Nielsen and his colleagues, published a fascinating study in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution looking at …
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The Genetics of Inuit Cold Weather Adaptation
A new study in the journal Molecular Biology & Evolution analyzed the genomes of nearly 200 Inuits, looking particularly at …
The Oldest Humans, Aboriginal Australians
A genetic and cultural analysis, published in Nature, of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans from New Guinea suggests there was …
No, Neanderthals Didn’t Give Us Schizophrenia
Thanks to twin studies, schizophrenia is one of the few mental illnesses that we know have a genetic inheritance pattern. …
Modern Males Lack Neanderthal Y Chromosome Genes
Modern humans carry up to 4% Neanderthal DNA but a new paper reveals that the Neanderthal Y chromosome is distinct …
Sima de los Huesos Neanderthals Diverged 430,000 Years Ago
Published in Nature, last week, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology carried out extremely …
Neanderthal-Human Sex Happened 100,000 Years Earlier
Previously it had been thought that the modern humans and Neanderthals first admixed about 60,000 years ago, but traces of …
Was Neanderthal Extinction Due To Human Cultural Superiority?
A couple of new papers about Neanderthals have come out in the prior two weeks that I found particularly interesting. One …
Decoding The Origins Of Ötzi’s Gut Flora
In Science this week, researchers have reported they have reconstructed the entire genome of the H. pylori that lived in Ötzi’s …
Thank Your Neandertals & Denisovans For Your Allergies
Two new papers in the American Journal of Human Genetics document how we should thank archaic humans like Neandertals and Denisovans for …
