Friday, November 22, 2013

24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians. By Nicholas Wade.

The remains of a boy from palaeolithic Siberia — shown here in a burial reconstruction at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg — revealed that he had European genes. Kelly Graf.


24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians. By Nicholas Wade. New York Times, November 20, 2013.

Americas’ natives have European roots. By Ed Yong. Nature, November 20, 2013.

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans. By Maanasa Raghavan et al. Nature, published online, November 20, 2013.

Mystery humans spiced up ancients’ sex lives. By Ewen Callaway. Nature, November 19, 2013.

Genome analysis suggests there was interbreeding between modern humans, Neanderthals, Denisovans and an unknown archaic population.