Recent Human Evolution

January 16, 2012 by Razib Khan 0

Evolution, Evolutionary Genetics, Human Evolution, Human Evolutionary Genetics, Human Evolutionary Genomics, Human Genetics, Human Genomics, lactase persistence, Lactose intolerance, Recent Human Evolution

The milkmen

Dienekes and Maju have both commented on a new paper which looked at the likelihood of lactase persistence in Neolithic remains from Spain, but I thought I would comment on it as well. The paper is: Low prevalence of lactase persistence in Neolithic South-West Europe. The location is on the fringes of the modern Basque […]

December 7, 2010 by Razib Khan 0

Adaptation, Agriculture, Diabetes, Diet, Genetics, Genomics, Human Evolution, Human Genetics, Medicine, Metabolism, Recent Human Evolution, Thrifty Gene

One diabetes gene to explain it all?

President William Howard Taft
It is the best of times, it is the worse of times. On the one hand the medical consequences of human genomics have been underwhelming. This is important because this is the ultimate reason that much of the basic research is funded. And yet we’ve learned so much. The genetic architecture of […]

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