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November 8, 2011

CNV genetic variation in Chinese and others

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A rather technical (but surprisingly easy to read) new paper that may have some interest for those interested in global and East Asian popul...
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November 5, 2011

Tandem repeat accumulation drives evolution in great apes

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Tandem repeats (also known as mini-/microsatellites ) used to be considered 'neutral' junk genome, yet they are proving themselves q...

Escargots crossed the Mediterranean via Sardinia hitchhiking human ships

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Snails of the Tudorella sulcata species, which lives on land, are found all around the Western Mediterranean: in France, Spain, Sardinia, A...
November 3, 2011

Genetic history of European barley

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Barley Nice new information on the genetics of Hordeum vulgare that may help to understand the Neolithic in Europe: Huw Jones et al. Ev...

Uluzzian was a 'sapiens', not Neanderthal, industry: oldest modern Europeans dated to 44,000 and 42,000 years ago

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The Uluzzian baby tooth I just stumbled upon this BBC article that explains how an Apulian baby tooth (Grotta del Cavallo) and an Engli...
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November 1, 2011

Neolithic Iberian DNA

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Cardium Pottery example Dienekes just mentions the publication of a paper on the ancient DNA of some Neolithic people from Catalonia (Av...
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Echoes from the Past (Nov 1)

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Happy calaca day to all Mexicans. I have a bunch of interesting news items stored in the "to do" folder and it's time to relea...
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