Melanesians – Razib Khan

July 22, 2011 by Razib Khan 0

Blond Negrito, Blonde Negrito, Blondism, Genetics, Human Genetics, Malaysian Negritos, Melanesians

Shadows of phenotypes lost

I have posted on the existence of blonde hair amongst some Melanesians before. There are natural chemical treatments as well as extreme malnutrition which can result in blonde hair in dark skinned people. The latter seems unlikely from the photos I&#82…

December 23, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Admixture, Allan Wilson, Chris Stringer, Denisova, Denisovans, Erectus, Genetics, Genomics, Hominin, Human Evolution, Human Evolutionary Genetics, Human Genetics, Intogression, Melanesians, Milford Wolpoff, Multiregionalism, Neandertals, Neanderthals, Out of African, phylogenetics, Select Post

The paradigm is dead, long live the paradigm!

Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution: Mitochondrial DNA from 147 people, drawn from five geographic populations have been analysed by restriction mapping. All these mitochondrial DMAs stem from one woman who is postulated to have lived ab7out 200,000 years ago, probably in Africa. All the populations examined except the African population have multiple origins, implying that […]

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