A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations
Cell,
Genome-wide data from 146 ancient Balkan individuals dating to the 1st millennium CE, together with detailed archaeological…
Be careful when studying selection based on polygenic score overdispersion
Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology,
b'How robust are cross-population signatures of polygenic adaptation in humans?Alba Refoyo-Mart\xc3\xadnez, Siyang Liu, Anja…
Proto-Indo-Europeans: A family business
Indo-european.eu,
I have been updating the Ancient DNA Dataset with date estimates published in the recent preprint by Sedig, Olalde, Patterson
La peste était présente depuis des millénaires avant les grandes épidémies
Actualité Houssenia Writing,
L’un des tueurs les plus prolifiques de la civilisation a observé des êtres humains pendant des milliers d’années à leur insu.
Plague was around for millennia before epidemics took hold – and the way people lived might be what protected them
DJG Blogger,
What happened to make plague able to cause devastating epidemics? Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com One of civilization’s…
Why conservatives should embrace evolution ‘as a jewel’ of modern Western civilization
Genetic Literacy Project,
The Skull’s Petrous Bone and the Rise of Ancient Human DNA: Q
Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences,
The human petrous bone in the skull protects the inner ear structures. Though it is one of the hardest, densest bones in the…
Genome Time Machine
Penn Medicine News Blog,
The human genome is a bit like a time machine, says Ben Voight, an associate professor in Systems Pharmacology and…
Polygenic scores and tea drinking
gcbias,
Debates over the contribution of genetics to differences among populations have a long and contentious history. We have known…
5 things we’ve learned about ancient humans, thanks to DNA
Genetic Literacy Project,
Dunkelhäutig und blauäugig - DNA-Analysen passen nicht in mancher Weltbild
Archaeologik,
In den vergangenen Tagen ging die Meldung durch die britischen Medien, wonach DNA Analysen nachgewiesen haben, dass der älteste …
Five surprising things DNA has revealed about our ancestors
Brinkwire,
Author George Busby Scientific Product Manager, University of Oxford University of Oxford Researchers recently used DNA from…
Tales told by ancient human DNA
Genes to Genomes,
Archaeologists have long known how to extract millennia-old stories from a single tooth buried in an ancient ruin—and now…
Opposite genetic adaptation to the diets of European hunter-gatherers and farmers
Nature Ecology & Evolution Community,
The same genetic variants in FADS genes underwent positive selection both before and after the Agricultural Revolution in Europe.
Отношения охотников и земледельцев оказались сложнее, чем считалось ранее
Naked Science,
Ученые предполагают, что увеличение числk
Anthroplogy – Page 2 – Gene Expression
Gene Expression,
The figure to the left is from a paper, The mountains of giants: an anthropometric survey of male youths in Bosnia and…
rs174548: FADS1 and arachidonic acid
Human Metabolic Individuality,
The association of the FADS1 locus with arachidonic acid and metabolites on its pathway is one of the loci with the strongest…
The Srubnaya outlier
Eurogenes Blog,
I just ran a quick PC/nMonte analysis of 55 individuals from across South Central Asia: The input data can be downloaded here.
A Conversation with Population Geneticist David Poznik
The 23andMe Blog,
This interview is part of an occasional series of profiles introducing you to some of 23andMe’s scientists. Population…
Petrous bone is the new black
The Molecular Ecologist,
I was just reading an article about skeletal reconstruction of another fascinating extinct species when my supervisor came to…
‘Paleo’ diet out of step with human evolution
Genetic Literacy Project,
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The article kicked…
What actual ‘caveman’ DNA says about the Paleo movement
Ezra Klein,
A worker in Motala, Sweden recovers remains of humans believed to be about 8,000 years old. DNA from the bones has been…
qpF4ratio tour of South Central Asia
Eurogenes Blog,
First of all, just to make sure everything's working as it should, here's an attempt to model two different Yamnaya populations…
The Poltavka outlier
Eurogenes Blog,
Anyone who still thinks that Y-chromosome haplogroup R1a originated in South Asia should burn this map into their brains. It'll…
A cautionary tale from Armenia
Eurogenes Blog,
Present-day Armenians, when placed in a clade with Caucasus hunter-gatherer (CHG) Kotias using D-stats of the form D(Outgroup,Tes…
Rathlin1: Irish son of German Beakers
Eurogenes Blog,
The first ancient Europeans confirmed to have the ability to digest milk sugar lactose as adults (lactase persistence) via…
Spatio-temporal segment sharing analysis featuring eight ancient genomes
Eurogenes Blog,
No one's done this yet, probably because at this stage it's still a crazy idea. But sometimes crazy ideas actually work. Here's…
古代DNAから推定される選択圧
バイオの故里から,
集団遺伝学： 古代DNAから推定される選択圧ブックマーク Nature 528, 7583 2015年12月24日 約
Nature ：从古DNA推导出的选择压力
生物360最新文章,
这项研究将古DNA用作观察人类演化的一个关键时期(距今大约8500年前农业生产
At least three genetically distinct Indo-European migrations into South Asia
Eurogenes Blog,
First came the Indo-Aryans, probably in a couple of waves. Historical linguistics and archeology tell us that they originated…
The Scythian
Eurogenes Blog,
Time to have a look at the Scythian steppe warrior from the Mathieson et al. dataset. This is the first Scythian individual to…
Lactose Tolerance Came From Central Asia Approximately 4,000 Years Ago
Anthropology.net,
That recent study published in the journal Nature, that I commented on last week, also documents that Europeans began digesting…
Early farmers brought light skin, height to northern Europeans
Genetic Literacy Project,
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When agriculture…
Farming in the DNA
AoB Blog,
Archaeology shows that farming spread across Europe from the Middle East. For Europeans, farming started in the Fertile…
SciNat за ноябрь 2015 #4: факторы отбора древних людей, новые типы нейронов и гены, необходимые клеткам человека
"Биомолекула",
На этой неделе авторитетные журналы мног&
Farming’s in Their DNA
Technology Org,
The introduction of agriculture into Europe about 8,500 years ago changed the way people lived right down…
The Genetic Impact of the Agricultural Revolution
Anthropology.net,
The agricultural revolution 8,500 years ago in Eurasia, changed the way people lived right down to their DNA, as outlined in a…
Neolithic farmers from Greece and Anatolia
Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog,
A couple of new papers appeared this week. First, an article in Nature on natural selection in ancient Europe includes a sample…
How evolution took us from Neolithic farmers to modern Europeans
Ars Technica,
A Neolithic settlement on the Orkneys. (credit: Caltech) The Neolithic Revolution involved the advent of agriculture…
Agriculture Changed Us
Rapid Uplift,
.. and I don't mean just culturally, but biologically as well.Carl Zimmer in the New York Times summarizes recent results from…
农耕如何改变欧洲基因组
生物360最新文章,
8500年前，当来自近东地区的第一批农民到欧洲拉犁垦荒时，他们也随之带
Genome Study Reveals The Genetic History Of Europeans
IFLScience - Plants and Animals,
Plants and…
With rise of agriculture came big changes in European genome
Genetic Literacy Project,
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The agricultural…
qpAdm tour of the Eneolithic/Bronze Age steppe
Eurogenes Blog,
I didn't obsessively try to find the best fits. I just grabbed the reference samples that made the most sense based on previous…
Ancient DNA shows first farming impacts
Research News - ResearchCareer,
An international research project says the introduction of agriculture may have changed the DNA of ancient humans.
Stone Age Europeans Adapted Quickly for Agriculture, Immunity
Laboratory Equipment News,
Beginning 8,500 years ago, Europe became a dynamic cauldron of change. Humans quickly altered their environment through farming…