Saturday, March 15, 2014

New Diet, Sexual Attraction May Have Spurred Europeans’ Lighter Skin. By Michael Balter.

New Diet, Sexual Attraction May Have Spurred Europeans’ Lighter Skin. By Michael Balter. Science Now, March 10, 2014.

Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y. By Sandra Wilde et al. PNAS, Early Edition, March 5, 2014.

How Farming Reshaped Our Genomes. By Michael Balter. Science Now, January 26, 2014.

The Timing of Pigmentation Lightening in Europeans. Sandra Beleza et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 30, No. 1 (January 2013).

Ancient Hunter-Gatherers Kept In Touch. By Michael Balter. Science Now, June 28, 2012.