Patagonian monsters

T hirty eight years ago, back in 1988, BBC Radio 3 transmitted a program called "And Then There Was Us" it was hosted by Colin Tud...

F ollowing my previous post on similarities between San people in southern South Africa, and Europeans , I read a paper about the San (Khois...

H arvard geneticist David Reich gave a long interview which can be seen in video online here It includes a transcript from where I extracte...

I came across research by J. H. Relethford, who in a paper published in Nature in 2008 cites Templeton's work about the different expa...

T he main backing for the Out of Africa theory is the Genetic Neutrality Theory . The arguments of an African origin of modern humans and ...

R esearch published in Nature on Dec. 13, 2024 suggests, as its title says, that some models used by scientsts may lead to assume the existe...

I have mentioned Shi Huang in two previous posts ( Out of China? in 2019 and On Neanderthals in America and the Out of China Hypothesis i...

H uman herpesvirus (HHV-6) has to haplotypes, A-6 and B-6, interestingly the virus can merge into human genes, blending into our DNA (the sc...

A paper published yesterday (January 7, 2026) in Nature investigated some fossil remains found in a site (Grotte à Hominidés) at a quarry i...

A paper published in December 2019 (Early replacement of West Eurasian male Y chromosomes from the east. Pille Hallast, Anastasia Agdzhoya...

I found an interesting paper published four years ago (Árnason, Ú. The unidirectional phylogeny of Homo sapiens anchors the origin of moder...

A paper published in Nature (Hallett, E.Y., Leonardi, M., Cerasoni, J.N. et al. Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa ...

T he article I mention in this post was published in Feb. 2020 ( Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations ...

A paper published in Science ( The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes by Martin Petr et al. SCIENCE 25 SEP ...