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Population growth and deleterious mutations 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
Genetics doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.153973 Population Growth Inflates the Per-Individual Number of Deleterious Mutations and Reduces Their Mean Effect Elodie Gazave et al. This study addresses the q...
The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family 27 Aug 2013 | 06:29 am
Journal of Language Relationship • Вопросы языкового родства • 10 (2013) • Pp. 85—137 The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language family: the relationship with Greek and Indo-Iranian* Hrach ...
Y-chromosome haplogroup Q and Native Americans 22 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
PLoS ONE 8(8): e71390. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071390 The First Peopling of South America: New Evidence from Y-Chromosome Haplogroup Q Vincenza Battaglia et al. Recent progress in the phylogeneti...
Pre-Viking colonization of Faroe islands 21 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
Quaternary Science Reviews Available online 17 July 2013 The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands Mike J. Church et al. We report on the earliest archaeological evidence from ...
Oldest gaming tokens from Başur Höyük 16 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
Oldest Gaming Tokens Found in Turkey Small carved stones unearthed in a nearly 5,000-year-old burial could represent the earliest gaming tokens ever found, according to Turkish archaeologists who are...
Climate caused the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean 15 Aug 2013 | 09:11 pm
PLoS ONE 8(8): e71004. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071004 Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis David Kaniewski et al. The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linka...
Specialized bone tools made by Neandertals before the arrival of modern humans into Europe 13 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1302730110 Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe Marie Soressia et al. Abstract Modern humans replaced Neandertals ∼40,000 y ago. Close to the time of ...
Indo-Europeans in Journal of Language Relationship 13 Aug 2013 | 01:46 am
I had referred to this collection of papers before, and now all the PDFs appear to be available free of charge. This seems fairly interesting: Language and archeology: some methodological problems....
Population growth and the linkage disequilibrium curve 12 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
The concluding paragraph: The European LD curve is steeper than either of the equilibrium curves in Fig. 10, suggesting a history of population expansion. This might re- flect the spread of modern hum...
Belorussian Y chromosomes and mtDNA 11 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
PLoS ONE 8(6): e66499. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066499 Uniparental Genetic Heritage of Belarusians: Encounter of Rare Middle Eastern Matrilineages with a Central European Mitochondrial DNA Pool Ale...
