Miscellaneous links

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Larger monkey groups lose fights because they contain more deserters In the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, 150 or so British troops defended a mi...
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India paper

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The paper, Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia , is free....
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23andMe sale Monday

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For those who are interested.
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"Huge" Genographic Project ancient DNA study underway?

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A reader forwards a comment posted to a mailing list yesterday by a project administrator attending FamilyTreeDNA's Houston conference: ...
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Jewish Liberalism: the Allinsmith Study

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Polling data is not kind to Moldbug's hilarious explanation for Jewish leftism. In a 1940s survey of eight religious denominations, Con...
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Penny starting to drop for academics

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From "Ancient DNA suggests the leading role played by men in the Neolithic dissemination" ( pdf ): The high frequency of G2a haplo...
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Dental morphological evidence for European admixture in Mongolia and western China

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Lee, C. and Scott, G. R. (2011), Brief communication: Two-rooted lower Canines—A European trait and sensitive indicator of admixture across ...
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Daniel MacArthur twitter commentary from CSHL Personal Genomes meeting

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This meeting took place a couple weeks ago -- dgmacarthur is presently posting from ICHG2011 . James Watson is asking a question . At lea...

What fraction of the human genome is functional?

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What fraction of the human genome is functional? Chris P. Ponting1,3 and Ross C. Hardison2,3 Abstract Many evolutionary studies o...

More excerpts from Chris Stringer's "The Origin of Our Species"

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I read this a few months ago, but never got around to posting anything on it. On group selection: However, more recently, biologists and an...
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Out of Eurasia

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From Chris Stringer's most recent book ("The Origin of Our Species"): And the evidence from Dmanisi is now being added to thi...

Ancestry.com's "Human Genetic Diversity Project"

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Ancestry.com will apparently be offering autosomal DNA testing soon. They just gave away 2000 free "upgrades" to people who had p...

Denisovans: Homo erectus after all?

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Greg Cochran : The new paper in Science about an Australian genome (An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into A...
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"East Asian" mtDNA in Neolithic Hungary?

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I don't have access to the paper at the moment. According to Jean M : The details have been added to Ancient Western Eurasian DNA . The...
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Ötzi's Y-DNA haplogroup: G2a4

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A few days ago a commenter at Dienekes' posted that this information had been revealed by "Dr. Eduard Egarter-Vigl, Head of Conser...
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Haplogroup C mtDNA in Caucasoids does not necessarily indicate "Mongoloid" admixture

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Dienekes writes : Jean M links to a Master's thesis , which discovered the following: While most of our samples possessed mtDNA hap...
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Sex Chromosome Evolution and Medicine

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A talk from earlier this year by David Page. Slides available here (pdf). Contra the view promoted by Bryan Sykes, the Y chromosome is no...

Greater policing required to enforce cooperation in "diverse" societies

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A Test of Evolutionary Policing Theory with Data from Human Societies (PLoS ONE): In social groups where relatedness among interacting indi...
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Svante Paabo TED talk on Neanderthal admixture

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Posting without having watching watched it yet. "Sharing the results of a massive, worldwide study, geneticist Svante Pääbo shows the ...
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Next PoBI paper should be more interesting

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Another ICHG/ASHG 2011 abstract: People of the British Isles: An analysis of fine-scale population structure in a UK control population . S....