Were Protoaurignacian’s Modern Humans or Neandertals?
Many cultures existed in Europe about 40-45,000 years ago. About 42,000 years ago, in southern Europe, the Protoaurignacian developed and …
Tag Archives: mtDNA
Neandertal Social Groups
Very rarely is an entire family group of hominins buried and fossilized at the same time. It is even rarer …
An Improved Method On Calibrating The Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock
The American Journal of Human Genetics has published an article titled, “Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular …
Molecular Clocks Are Time-Dependent
If you’re a regular reader of Dienekes blog, you’d know he’s consistently raised concerns that calibrations of molecular clocks don’t …
The Mitochondrial Lineage Of Ötzi Is Not Like Other Europeans
Last month I was excited to share some research about the chemical composition of Ötzi, the 5,000 year old Tyrolean …
Prehistoric Population Sizes & Migrations Within Africa Inferred From Coalescent Theory
The other day Dienekes pointed out a paper on ancestral human population dynamics within Africa before the out of Africa …
The Mitochondrial & Y-Chromosome Variation Of The Talysh From Iran & Azerbaijan
Ivan Nasidze and Mark Stoneking, along with a half dozen or so other colleagues, have studied the mitochondrial and Y-chromosome …
Dravidian & Korku People Of India Maybe Descendants Of Middle/Early Upper Paleolithic Settlers
The mitochondrial macrohaplogroup M is a descendant of the macrohaplogroup L3, a really old East African haplogroup thought to have …
The Complete Vindija 33.16 Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Announced in Cell
Tomorrow’s issue of the high impact & widly cited journal Cell hosts this paper, “A Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequence …
An Arab in Roman Iron-Age Denmark
Ancient mtDNA from 22 individuals from two sites in Southern Denmark have been isolated, sequenced and analyzed. The two sites …
