Science Daily summarizes findings that Neandertal teeth grew at the same rate as modern humans. John Hawks applies the skeptical eye of a scientist. N matters....
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Were neandertal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?:
... Here we use a variety of statistical tests founded on explicit predictions from quantitative- and population-…
This is more for google, but if you missed anything, you should check it out. Here is a replay of the introgression & Neandertal related posts....
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Neandertal & H. sapiens sapiens interbreeding
Neandertal-"modern" mixing
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About a month ago I posted quite a bit about Neandertal introgression into modern humans. That is, the uptake of Neandertal alleles are a few specific adaptively salient loci even while ancestry remains predominantly African. Now John Hawks and Gregory Cochran have a new paper out, Dynamics of…
More Neandertal news, as promised!
John Hawks is getting so much traffic that his site is getting bogged down. Anyway, he posts on the two studies that came out on Neandertal genomic sequencing. No big news, Neandertals are very different, and there isn't a great deal of evidence for mixing…
Ah, man, variance sucks. Why can't everyone be average?
i took a paleoanthro class once...the N sizes really shocked me. the prof was like, "you deal with the cards god throws your way...."