The men of Africa
Khoikhoi on the move….
Dienekes mentioned today a new paper, Signatures of the pre-agricultural peopling processes in sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by the phylogeography of early Y chromosome lineages. Because of the recent comments in this s…
Africa in 12 ADMIXTURE chunks
Some have asked what the point is in poking around African population structure when Tishkoff et al. and Henn et al. have done such a good job in terms of coverage. First, it is nice to run your own analyses so you can slice & dice to your preferen…
George R. R. Martin in The New Yorker
A friend mentioned last night that he was watching a bit of A Game of Thrones, the new HBO series based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. I’ll probably wait until after the DVD version comes out, if I watch it at all. …
Fair & balanced on circumsion
When Michelle mentioned on Twitter that she was going to write about circumcision, I told her to expect some angry people to come out of the wood-work. Today she has a post up at Scientific American, What’s the deal with male circumcision and fe…
Paleoanthropological “telephone”
A few people have emailed me a link to this weird story, Kashmiri Neanderthal soup not scoop:
The study, conducted by the UC Davis Anthropology Department at the US, found that about four percent (ranging from two to five percent) of all modern humans,…
The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, free!
Long time readers are aware that one of my favorite books is R. A. Fisher’s The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. It’s a touch on the spendy side for a slim, though dense, book. But looking for stuff that’s public domain for my K…
You learn from failure
In yesterday’s post on African genetics I tried to work with a large set of populations, but narrowed SNPs down to ~40,000. Today I thought I’d go another route, focus on having a thicker market set, but with fewer populations. So I did a b…
Friday Fluff – April 1st, 2011
1) First, a post from the past: Lydians & Etruscans.
2) Weird search query of the week: “girls from which country are the most attractive?+iran”
3) Comment of the week, in response to “Who thinks the sun goes around the earth?&…