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    Spring-Loaded Heels Gave Extra Step to Homo Sapiens(as opposed to Neandertals)

    Spring-Loaded Heels Gave Extra Step to Early Homo Sapiens Perhaps this is why modern African atheletes dominate most Marathon length running events. Since they do not have any Neandertal DNA and modern European and Asians do?
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    Native American Genes found in Icelandic Families

    Vikings Possibly Carried Native American to Europe
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    Is there a Liberal Gene?

    Friendships Moderate an Association between a Dopamine Gene Variant and Political Ideology Basically the paper finds a link between a particular mutation of the Gene DRD4 and the number friends one had during adolescence with your political leanings as an adult. Personally I think that they...
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    Columbus DNA Origin

    This article is about 3 years old and I have not been able to find any follow up on it and if it ever resulted in any definite findings? Search for Christopher Columbus Origin Apparently he was able to get several hundred samples from the Ligurian area of Italy and the Catalan area Spain of...
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    The Results are in for Ozzy Osborne's DNA.

    The attached article is rather vague and gives no real specifics but since it does say that he is distantly related to the American Outlaw Jesse James and the last Russian tsar Nicholas II and King George I, then I suppose it could be inferred that he is R1b YDNA and T2 mtDNA. The funny part is...
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    OK Europeans you can stop blaming America for this! lol

    Columbus not the source of European Syphillis Outbreak
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    New Fossil Findings suggest, Asian Neanderthals, Humans Mated

    Asian Neanderthals, Humans Mated THE GIST The oldest modern human remains from East Asia have been found and date to at least 100,000 years ago. The structure of the fossils and age all suggest that modern humans interbred with Neanderthals. The findings also reveal that modern humans were...
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    Another good reason to go to Spain!

    Spain Holds First Annual Siesta Championship Hopefully our Iberian members won't look at this post as a slam against Spain, I personally would like to see the siesta be a world wide workers right! :good_job:
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    Happy Birthday Earth!

    Earth Created Oct, 22nd 4004 B.C.E. I found this and thought it was laughable, but then read the rest of the post and had to agree with Stephen Jay Gould, it was a laudable effort for the time. Read More...
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    How Middle Eastern Milk Drinkers Conquered Europe

    Very interesting narrative of how farming and lactose tolerance allowed Middle Eastern Farmers to out populate and conquer Europe. The link is to the English Language version from Der Spiegel. I have included the first section of the article to give you an idea what is in the rest of the...
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    Genetic analysis of the presumptive blood from Louis XVI, king of France

    Genetic analysis of the presumptive blood from Louis XVI, king of France http://www.fsigenetics.com/article/PIIS1872497310001602/ I wasn't sure where to post this, but I guessed that the best place might be here in general genetics instead of History. If Maciamo of one of the other...
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    Extremely Interesting Indo-European Language Site

    I stumble across this site after a discussion at lunch today with a couple of co-workers on how mutually inteligible Italian was with Spanish. The site really wasn't what I was looking for but it is extremely interesting and a great deal of work has gone into the whole project. Here is the...
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    Stonehenge Boy was from the Med

    Stonehenge Boy was from the Med It seems that our Bronze Age European ancestors did some considerable traveling. The article in the link suggests that maybe the boy was traveling with his family to Stonehenge as sort of a religous shrine. It might be that he was a slave who was a sacrafice...
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    City live helped humans evolve immunity to TB

    City live helped humans evolve immunity to TB
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    Neandertals more advanced than previously believed

    Rebalitation of the Neandertal With the recent news that Neaderthals were not killed off when anatomically modern humans entered Eurasia another paper has been written further rehabilitating the Neandertal's reputation.
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    Environmental DNA modifications tied to obesity

    From ScienceNews Epigenetic changes could influence many common conditions. Now I have another excuse for being 30 kilos overweight! :grin:
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    Antique Slang and British/French Enmity

    Many years ago (I was about 12 years old) I read a book by Charlton Laird, named The Miracle of Language It wasn't really a scholarly work but a book written as popular literature. However it did really get me interested in languages particularly Indo-European languages. One of the things I...
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    Government of Mexico cuts corruption 10%

    By firing nearly 10% of the National Police Force. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67T52D20100830
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    Constructed Languages?

    There have probably been 20 or 30 artificial languages created in the last 100 years or so. Esperanto and Ido are probably the two best known in America, however I have found that several of the other languages are quite logical and easy to read. Interlingua, Occidental, Lingua Franca Nova and...
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    Genitics: Do you want to live 800 years?

    Do you want to live forever? :petrified: Frankly it sort of scares me. However by genetic manipulation and diet control some California scientists have gotten a strain of yeast to live the equivalent of an 800 year human life span. There are a number of other interesting factoids and...
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