Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA: European chickens were introduced into the American continents by the Spanish after their arrival in the 15th century. […]
John Hawks points me to this story in The New York Times about research to be published in PNAS. Basically the researchers found that chickens buried in south-central Chile about […]
John Hawks points me to this story in The New York Times about research to be published in PNAS. Basically the researchers found that chickens buried in south-central Chile about […]
Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement: The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American populations has long intrigued researchers. Proponents have pointed to […]
I’m not a big reader on revolutions, but they rarely turn out the way revolutionaries expect them, and in the long view of history they often don’t turn out too […]
One of the most incredible journeys that the human species has undergone is the Austronesian expansion of the past 4,000 years. These maritime peoples seem to have emerged from the […]
The above results are from Ancestry. You can see here 4% Melanesian. This is common in South Asians. And it’s not an error in the method. Rather, it is a […]
What’s going on? Very busy, so haven’t gotten much further in The Dialectical Imagination, but I do have to say that the distinction between “positive freedom” and “negative freedom” is […]
If population genetics is “study of the distributions and changes of allele frequency in a population,” then the understanding of the maintenance of variation (or lack thereof) is one of […]