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Ancient Irish genomes confirm Bronze Age steppe incursion

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Press release: First ancient Irish human genomes sequenced . BBC: Ancient DNA sheds light on Irish origins . Guardian: Origins of the I...
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Ancient DNA: Late Upper Paleolithic Swiss and Caucasus hunter-gatherers sequenced

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Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians (open access): We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by seq...
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Selection against Neanderthal introgression (two biorxiv preprints)

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The Strength of Selection Against Neanderthal Introgression Ivan Juric, Simon Aeschbacher, Graham Coop doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/03014...
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"Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe" preprint - updated with Anatolian Neolithic and other data

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Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe The arrival of farming in Europe around 8,500 years ago necessitated adaptation to ...
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Political background and identification of US professors circa 1969

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Previously, we've seen that upper income Jews in Boston voted much further left than Protestant Bostonians in the middle of the 20th ce...
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Religious backgrounds of US professors circa 1969

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This data comes from "a large national sample (60,000) of faculty who filled out questionnaires for the Carnegie Commission on Higher...
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Moldbug's sources: Forrest McDonald, "Celtic Southernism", and the Lew Rockwell school of late 20th C. PC anti-Yankeeism

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As he himself eventually confirmed, moldbug's ideology was formed by mashing up a variety of vaguely rightist and libertarian ideas and ...
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Linguistics, Archaeology & Genetics conference abstracts

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This conference, aimed at "integrating new evidence for the origin and spread of the Indo-European languages", will take place ne...
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More carriers of deeply diverged Y lineage (haplogroup A00) found in Cameroon

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This possibly archaic African Y lineage was discovered a few years ago by hobbyists, and a project run and funded by hobbyists to collect a...

1000 Genomes phase 3 papers

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Both papers are freely accessible: A global reference for human genetic variation An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 huma...

"Male Homosexual Preference" and social stratification

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I don't necessarily buy positive selection for genes predisposing to male homosexuality in stratified societies via pleiotropic effects ...
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Minor sub-Saharan and substantial Levantine admixture in Southern Europe

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According to " The Role of Recent Admixture in Forming the Contemporary West Eurasian Genomic Landscape ", something like a thir...
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Autosomal DNA from Atapuerca pre- or proto-Neanderthals

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DNA from Neandertal relative may shake up human family tree The Sima people, who lived before Neandertals, were thought to have emerged ...
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ASHG 2015: growth rate estimates from whole Y chromosome sequences

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Estimation of growth rates for populations and haplogroups using full Y chromosome sequences . F. L. Mendez; G. D. Poznik; C. D. Bustaman...

ASHG 2015: Population differentiation analysis of 54,734 European Americans

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Population differentiation analysis of 54,734 European Americans reveals independent evolution of ADH1Bgene in Europe and East Asia. K. J...
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ASHG 2015: The lingering load of archaic admixture in modern human populations

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The lingering load of archaic admixture in modern human populations. K. Harris1,2 ; R. Nielsen2,3 1) Stanford University, Stanford, CA;...

ASHG 2015: The genetic structure of the Saudi Arabian population

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The genetic structure of the Saudi Arabian population. H. Al-Saud1 ; SM. Wakil1 ; BF. Meyer1 ; M. Falchi2 ; N. Dzimiri1 1) Genetics Depa...

ASHG 2015: Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations

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Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations . E. Wong1 ; A. Khrunin2 ; L. Nichols2 ; D. Pushkarev3 ;...

Population genetic differentiation of height and body mass index across Europe

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From Visscher and colleagues: Population genetic differentiation of height and body mass index across Europe Across-nation differences ...
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ASHG 2015: ancient Anatolians similar to European Neolithic farmers and distinct from modern Near Easterners

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Genome-wide data on 34 ancient Anatolians identifies the founding population of the European Neolithic . I. Lazaridis1,2 ; D. Fernandes3 ...
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