Episode 1: A ScreenCast Tutorial On How-To Do A Multiple Sequence Alignment & Draw A Phylogenetic Tree Using Swami

The last time I did a little tutorial on how to use bioinformatic tools in anthropological research was last October. I’ve had some ideas since then and have decided to restart this project. The biggest change is the…

On Mexican Toloquilla Footprints and the “Peopling of the Americas”

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This post is intended as a follow-up to Kambiz’s review of the new dates for Toloquilla footprints. Frankly, it’s been very tiring to read and watch all the current and past powwows about the validity and veracity…

A Review of the “What does it mean to be human?” panel at the 2008 World Science Festival

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Wired Science shared some news of an interesting panel titled, “What it means to be human” held at this year’s World Science Festival in New York City. This week, we saw Michael Tomasello’s take on this…

Earliest known archaeological evidence of Americans found in Monte Verde, Chile « Anthropology.net

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Monte Verde, Chile is a very interesting archaeological site. First discovered in 1976, the site is about 500 miles south of Santiago and has yielded artifacts from of a small settlement of 20 to 30 people living in a…

4,000-year-old frozen hair mtDNA sequenced from a Greenlandic Saqqaq settlement « Anthropology.net

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A couple days ago Science published a peopling of the Americas paper. The paper is based on ancient mtDNA analysis of hair from a site in Greenland called, Saqqaq, also known as Qeqertasussuk, Disko Bay. The authors…

How was the world peopled?

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The paper is titled, “Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model.” This study is based off of inheritance patterns of 2000 SNPs from the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) dataset from 2006. The…

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