Rampaging across the world of human evolution for, oh, a good 18 months now..
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The NY Times has a nice article on phylogenetic tree visualisation. Yes, really: For years now the researchers have sequenced DNA from thousands of species from jungles, tundras and museum drawers. They have used supercomputers to crunch the genetic data and...
The Bone Wars occurred during a period of intense fossil speculation and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh...
Eva Jablonka asks if there is more to heredity, natural selection, and evolution than genes and DNA?: Growing evidence indicates there is more to heredity than DNA, that heritable non-DNA variations can take place during development, sometimes in response to...
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linked to by 2Some friends and associates of mine have just had their paper (finally!) come out in Molecular Biology and Evolution: mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory.In this paper, they estimate...
linked to by 1Everyone’s favorite systematics journal Systematic Biology have produced a collection of T-Shirts that you can buy online (like the awesome one above). This is a fundraising project, and 100% of the profits will go to helping graduate students in the...
The reviews of Roland Emmerich’s new movie, 10,000 B.C. (”A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter’s journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe”) are starting to come through, and it sounds like...
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Want this, from Systematic Biologyon your t-shirt? Stephen Colbert wants you to, and that is enough...Hat tip Henry SimonRead the comments on this post......
The movie, 10,000 B.C., blew away the competition last weekend, with an estimated $35.7 million in US box office receipts. I think it is a disaster movie of epic scale -- at least, from the point of view of anthropology! My favorite quote from a reviewer comes...
January 2008 has been another interesting and busy month for genetic genealogy and personal genomics. Keeping track of the latest developments can be a challenge, so I thought I’d do a brief round-up of some of the headlines that I thought were particularly...