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Ancient Jomon DNA and the Specter of European Admixture in Amerindians
Journal of Human Genetics, advance online publication, 09/01/2016; doi: 10.1038/jhg.2016.110 A Partial Nuclear Genome of the Jomons Who Lived 3000 Years Ago in Fukushima, Japan Kanzawa-Kiriyama,Hideaki, Kirill Kryukov, Timothy A Jinam, Kazuyoshi Hosomichi, Aiko Saso, Gen Suwa, Shintaroh Ueda, Minoru Yoneda, Atsushi Tajima, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Ituro Inoue, and Naruya Saitou The Jomon period…
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New World Monkeys Produce Hominin-Grade Lithic Tools
Nature 539 (2016): 85-88 doi:10.1038/nature20112 Wild monkeys flake stone tools Proffitt, Tomos, Lydia V. Luncz, Tiago Falótico, Eduardo B. Ottoni, Ignacio de la Torre, and Michael Haslam Our understanding of the emergence of technology shapes how we view the origins of…
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Peruvian Amerindians Have Strongest Genetic Ties to Archaic Hominins
Molecular Biology and Evolution (advance publication, October 18, 2016) Signatures of archaic adaptive introgression in present-day human populations Racimo, Fernando, Davide Marnettob, and Emilia Huerta-Sánchez Comparisons of DNA from archaic and modern humans show that these groups interbred, and in…
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Primate Stone Tools: Evidence from South America
One of the contributions of this weblog to our evolutionary thinking is the call for a more holistic, bi-hemispheric approach to hominid and human origins and, consequently, an increased appreciation of New World monkey behaviors as a surprisingly close parallel…
The Indo-Uralic Desire and the Comparative Method
Journal of Indo-European Studies 43, nos. 3-4 (2015): 348-56. “Response to Kassian et al., ‘Proto-Indo-European-Uralic comparison from the probabilistic point of view’.” Ringe, Don. Link Rarely does a response to a paper become a must-read, when the paper itself deserves only a passing look….
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