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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:00:00 GM

Dienekes. ' Anthropology blog is dedicated to human population genetics, physical anthropology, archaeology, and history. Feel free to send e-mail to . Dienekes. Pontikos, or to visit my other three sites: Anthropological​ Research Page, ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Parasites and Intelligence (Eppig et ...

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hu, 01 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GM

@. dienekes. "The Caribbean outliers are inhabited primarily by Africans, who are not expected to have adapted to the local parasites." You said before that the article makes an argument that does not require genetics. ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Guess the origin of this composite man

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ue, 08 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GM

Dieneke. , what exactly do you mean by Syrian (I am asking this question also for the next thread), as most of the population of Greater Syria (= Levant) is Arab (I mean Arabic speaking Muslim) in all or almost all of its provinces? ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Direction of gene flow (to or from ...

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Mon, 10 May 2010 22:00:00 GM

Regarding . Dienekes's. point about "substructure,"​ one of the earliest criticisms of the out of Africa model of human evolution was centered precisely around the notion of the structure of the ancestral population. Out of Africa assumes ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Composite Argentinean player (FIFA ...

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ue, 15 Jun 2010 06:00:00 GM

Dienekes. writes: "There are a few non-Spanish surnames in the bunch, and a few Amerindian-infl​uenced individuals, but the Spanish impression is clearly the strongest". The great Argentinean writer, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the few ...

Admixture in Uyghurs (again)

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Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:46:24 GM

Gene Expression points me to this letter which suggests that Western Eurasian admixture in Uyghurs has been overestimated in previous studies. They base their claim on the alleged low population coverage of previous studies. ...

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hu, 06 May 2010 12:00:00 GM

If you follow the link . Dienekes. posted above you can see that they show high presence of the "South Asian" component (also high but not so much in West Asia) but only quite low of the East Asian/Amerindia​n component, lower than Vologda ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Neolithic origin of European Y ...

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ue, 19 Jan 2010 22:01:00 GM

Maju, the problem is that posed by . Dienekes. , the difficulty to discern what is ancient and what is recent. Among the Ladins we have very recent haplotypes of German origins and very ancient from the first Rhaetians. ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Complex picture of R-M269 dispersal

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ue, 11 May 2010 06:00:00 GM

For me, and I think also for . Dienekes. , it is clear that there have been many waves of hg. R: India has an ancient stratum of R1a and probably a recent one come with Indo-Europeans.​ For us the fact that scholars begin to recognize that ...

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hu, 15 Jul 2010 20:05:31 GM

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Recent Tibetan adaptation for high altitude

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Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:00:00 GM

From the New Scientist: Mountain-dwelli​ng Tibetans have genetically adapted to life at altitude in the past 3000 years the fastest genetic change known to have occurred in humans. Rasmus Nielsen at the University of California, ...

Brain structure and Personality Big Five

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hu, 01 Jul 2010 06:00:00 GM

From the paper: The associations of personality traits with volume in predicted brain regions were generally consistent with the hypothesis that larger brain tissue volume is associated with increased function (with the exception of the ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Face of 11-year-old victim of the ...

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Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:00:00 GM

A bit off topic, but I interested in the opinion from . Dienekes. posters on these two pre-Islamic mummies from Yemen and there perfectly almost oddly round eye sockets. Is this typical for med. like populations? ...

Remember November: One more reason to hate ObamaCare

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Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:00:00 GM

[Original post at LaborUnionRepor​t.com]. As if the nationalization​ of your health care weren't enough reason to hate ObamaCare, here's a big one: ObamaCare imposes a tax on our nation's defenders for prosthetics! ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Ancient mtDNA from Denisova Cave

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Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:00:00 GM

Following up on my comment before, evidence from ancient and modern penguin mtDNA. suggests that mtDNA mutation rates are two to six times greater ...

IFIH1 points to ancient structure in Africa

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Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GM

Molecular Biology and Evolution, doi:10.1093/mol​bev/msq141Popul​ation genetics of IFIH1: ancient population structure, local selection and implications for susceptibility to type 1 diabetesMatteo Fumagalli et al. ...

Why do we have chins? (Thayer and Dobson 2010)

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ue, 01 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GM

A well-defined chin is a human-specific feature, so its origin is a hotly debated issue. The authors of the current paper list at least three different hypotheses about the origin of the chin. Two of the explanations are mechanical in ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: Caucasoid mtDNA U3 and X2 in ...

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Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GM

I agree with . Dienekes. . Vincent, read the abstract carefully. It labels hgs U3 and X2 as Western Eurasian. Caucasoid is just another name for Western Eurasian (including Northern Africa). Whether you call it race or not, it exists as a ...

Genetic Structure of the Spanish Population (Gayan et al. 2010)

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Wed, 26 May 2010 16:15:00 GM

BMC Genomics 2010, 11:326doi:10.11​86/1471-2164-11​-326 Genetic Structure of the Spanish Population Javier Gayan et al. Abstract Background Genetic admixture is a common caveat for genetic association analysis. Therefore, it is important ...

Dienekes ' Anthropology Blog: mtDNA of Yemeni and Ethiopian Jews

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Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:00:00 GM

Mitochondrial DNA analysis also revealed a high diversity of sub-Saharan African and Eurasian haplotypes in both the Yemenite and Ethiopian Jewish populations (see Fig. 2). Read this article: . Dienekes. ' Anthropology Blog: mtDNA of Yemeni ...