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Paleolithic Siberian domestic dog
Posted from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog 2 days ago
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From the press release: A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an equally ancient find in a cave in Belgium, indicates that modern dogs may be descended from multiple ancestors. I've been f... (original story)
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From the Archives: Savage Minds vs. Jared Diamond
Posted from Savage Minds 2 days ago
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Those of you following Savage Minds since the beginning will remember when this blog was the object of scorn and ridicule across the blogsphere as a result of our temerity in attacking Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel. The debate was nicely summed up at the time by Inside Higher Ed’... (original story)
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Wikipedia > Encyclopedias
Posted from Savage Minds 6 days ago
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Yesterday important swaths of the Internet were blacked out to protest SOPA, PIPA, and the RWA. We would have blacked out our site as well but… uh… we sort of didn’t get around to it. One site that did, however, was Wikipedia. This lead to a certain amount of chortling and self-sta... (original story)
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Consuming Space: On "blood timber", chewing gum, and free roaming hens
Posted from antropologi.info - anthropo... 6 days ago
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Book Review. Consuming Space: Placing Consumption in Perspective edited by Michael K. Goodman, David Goodman & Michael Redclift. Ashgate, 2010. Tereza Kuldova, PhD Fellow, Department of Ethnography, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo Chicken industry in UK, the violent history of luxury teak wo... (original story)
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Shortage of female math geniuses not due to "stereotype threat"
Posted from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog 6 days ago
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Men are over-represented at the high end of math performance: there are more male math geniuses than female ones. A theory that was proposed to explain that fact is that of stereotype threat. According to this theory, there is a stereotype in society that "women are bad in math"; women internalize ... (original story)
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Thank You!
Posted from antropologi.info - anthropo... 6 days ago
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Antropologi.info was recently voted as one of the best anthropology blogs. Jason Antrosio, editor of Living Anthropologically and Anthropology Report asked his readers to pick their three favorites among 120 anthropology blogs. I’m especially happy about the result as I haven’t told an... (original story)
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Archaic DNA data mining for dummies
Posted from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog 6 days ago
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I have repeatedly stressed how full genome sequencing will allow us to detect archaic DNA in modern humans, so I thought of writing a simple post where I lay out the rationale behind my conviction. The age of the microarray Microarrays test for a few 105 variants in the human genome. Conceptually,... (original story)
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Introgression of archaic haplotype at OAS1 in Melanesians (Mendez et al. 2012)
Posted from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog 6 days ago
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It seems that Michael Hammer was good on his promise that in 2012 "This year, we should be able to confirm what we found and go way beyond that." In a new paper, conclusive evidence is presented about introgression of an archaic sequence into Melanesian populations. The argument is as follows:... (original story)
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Phased Omni haplotypes with ShapeIT
Posted from Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog 9 days ago
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The working directory of the 1000 Genomes ftp site contains phased haplotypes for 2,123 individuals from the 1000 Genomes Project (US/Europe). The data were phased with ShapeIT, which I've recently played with, and could recommend as a fairly user-friendly and high quality phasing software. You can... (original story)
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