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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: The Taíno are extinct

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October 26, 2011. Corrects itself for stating. Pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Caribbean were extinct:. This article originally stated that the Taíno were extinct, which is incorrect. Nature apologizes for the offence caused, and has corrected the text to better explain the research project described. This is, of course, nonsense. How timorous has the modern scientific culture become. When we say that the Taíno are extinct, we are, in fact claiming that a population group. Influenced by Bos primigenius.

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Shortage of female math geniuses not due to "stereotype threat"

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January 19, 2012. Shortage of female math geniuses not due to "stereotype threat". Men are over-represented at the high end of math performance: there are more male math geniuses than female ones. A theory that was proposed to explain that fact is that of stereotype threat. A video on the topic by the first author:. Review of General Psychology. Jan 16 , 2012, No Pagination Specified. doi: 10.1037/a0026617. Can stereotype threat explain the gender gap in mathematics performance and achievement? The diffe...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Oase1 had a Neandertal ancestor no earlier than ~200 years before his time

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June 24, 2015. Oase1 had a Neandertal ancestor no earlier than 200 years before his time. Several important conclusions of the discovery that Oase1 had a Neandertal ancestor 4-6 generations before his time (37-42 thousand years ago):. So, it seems that Neandertal admixture was not a one-off event but is bracketed at least by the period 50-40 thousand years ago and happened in at least two places: Europe and the Near East. My bet is on the Campanian Ignibrite. An early modern human from Romania with a rec...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Kennewick Man was a Native American

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June 18, 2015. Kennewick Man was a Native American. The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man. Well then, isnt that interesting Hg X2a. But he was not born nor raised in Columbia drainage, but from much further north, as he drank glacial melt water most of his life. And this paper says something a couple of people have been saying lately, namely that the thick bodied points of mesa/sluiceway/hasket and agate basin represent a population moving north from south America into clovis territory. After 40...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Γιατί πρέπει να ψηφίσουμε ΝΑΙ στις 5 Ιουλίου

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July 05, 2015. Γιατί πρέπει να ψηφίσουμε ΝΑΙ στις 5 Ιουλίου. Απευθύνω το παρόν σε όσους ειλικρινά πιστεύουν πως βοηθούν την Ελλάδα ψηφίζοντας Όχι στο δημοψήφισμα της 5 Ιουλίου. Υπάρχουν φυσικά και οι άλλοι, οι οποίοι υστερόβουλα θέλουν να επικρατήσει το Όχι: είτε γιατί έχουν διαφυλάξει τα χρήματα τους σε θυρίδες ή το εξωτερικό και προσδοκούν να κερδίσουν από τη δραχμή, είτε γιατί προσβλέπουν σε μια καταστροφική προεπαναστατική κατάσταση που θα τους βοηθήσει να αδράξουν την εξουσία. Οι δε, που επιθυμούν α...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: 101 ancient genomes from Bronze Age Eurasia

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June 10, 2015. 101 ancient genomes from Bronze Age Eurasia. New data has been posted online. This seems related to this earlier post. Hopefully the study linked to this data will appear soon, but genome bloggers can get to it thanks to the early data release. Investigation of Bronze Age in Eurasia by sequencing from 101 ancient human remains. They got insights with genomes from Bronze age Armenia. Ive heard they also got Maikop and ancient Bulgarian genomes. Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:38:00 pm. That pret...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Natural selection and ancient European DNA

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March 15, 2015. Natural selection and ancient European DNA. A new preprint on the bioRxiv studies the same data as the recent Haak et al. Paper, but focuses on natural selection in Europe. Until recently, selection could only be studied by looking at modern populations, but since selection is genetic change over time effected by the environment, it's possible that studies like this will be the norm in the future. The new study seems to confirm the results of Wilde et al. Another new development is the ab...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Complex demographic history of Western Central African Pygmies

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July 12, 2015. Complex demographic history of Western Central African Pygmies. Doi: http:/ dx.doi.org/10.1101/022194. Whole genome sequence analyses of Western Central African Pygmy hunter-gatherers reveal a complex demographic history and identify candidate genes under positive natural selection. PingHsun Hsieh et al. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). British origins (with ancient data). Phylogeographic refinement of haplogroup E. Y-chromosomes of Sicilian and Calabrian Arbereshe. Why Y-STR haplotype ...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Y-chromosomes of Sicilian and Calabrian Arbereshe

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July 12, 2015. Y-chromosomes of Sicilian and Calabrian Arbereshe. European Journal of Human Genetics. Advance online publication 1 July 2015; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2015.138. Shared language, diverging genetic histories: high-resolution analysis of Y-chromosome variability in Calabrian and Sicilian Arbereshe. Stefania Sarno et al. Monday, July 13, 2015 3:31:00 pm. Not directly related to this article, but there is a new study about. Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8:58:00 pm. Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:30:00 am. You ar...

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Afanasievo, Okunev, Andronovo, Sintashta DNA?

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March 28, 2015. Afanasievo, Okunev, Andronovo, Sintashta DNA? A reader alerts me to this article. In Russian, but you can use Google Translate to get the gist of it. Some interesting bits (note that "pit"=Yamna):. E As a result, according to geneticists, there was a population associated with the Corded Ware culture, and from it are the origin of the later Indo-European. By the same conclusions about the same time came the other team's leading geneticists led by Eske Villerslevom. Firstly, in okunevtsah ...