europeans

A majority of scientists suscribe (or don't question) the "out of Africa" theory, but looking to the science rather to the scientists, we see it doesn't make much sense. For starters, the theory isn't really proven with DIRECT archeological/paleontological remains, it ONLY rests in the fact...

A pair of researchers at Temple University has found evidence that suggests Neanderthals mated and produced offspring with anatomically modern humans multiple times—not just once, as has been suggested by prior research. In their paper published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution...

We have recently discussed what it means for a country to be 'Western', and and whether Latin American countries should be considered Western or not. To answer that second question, it is useful to compare the ethnic make-up of unequivocally Western countries, like Western European countries...

Hello everyone! I try to write some article about eropean identity and that's because I want to ask you next question. What is the eropean identity for you: it's something that came from people's lives(daily communication,experience etc.) or identity is constructed by EU's politicians and...

I saw in a genetics post or in a forum that iberians from the peoples of europe are the furthest away from the others. Is this true in fst distances and if yes why is it like that, I mean what may have caused that. Is it maybe about more continuity from ancient times and less indo-european input...

A new paper published by V. Canfield and his colleagues looked into the allele distribution of the SLC24A5 gene, whose A111T (rs1426654) mutation is linked with light skin pigmentation in European, Middle Eastern and Central/South Asian populations. The paper comes just two months after a...

From recent paper: More interesting thoughts, but a bit off topic. (couldn't resist :) ) http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1312/1312.6639.pdf Did anyone find additional information about this admixture? Does it have a name?