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Chimpanzee mutation rate is largely determined by fathers' age and, overall, implies a Pan-Homo divergence rate of ~13 million years...

[ Update (Jun 29): new entry on this issue available ]. [ Update: the origin of this news is Venn 2014 but I could not find the mention...

H. heidelbergensis from Atapuerca Cranium 5 "Miguelón" (CC by José Manuel Benito) This has been in the news all around this...

An anthropological and geographical resource that may be of interest: → Pan Inuit Trails The atlas seems so far mostly limited to N...

Interesting study on Mexico's Native American diversity : Andrés Moreno Estrada et al., The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native...

A new and quite interesting study finds strong support for Upper Paleolithic (~ LSA) Eurasian inflows into the Horn of Africa and confirms ...

In China the Academy of Science has made compulsory to deposit research in open access publications 12 months after the original publicati...