I had posted about the discovery of Altinum last year. Now, a new paper in Science presents a map of the ancient Roman city that was a precursor of Venice. Rogue Classicist has several links that cover the story. On the left is an aerial view of the site (top) and its reconstructed map (bottom) [...]
Yet another case in which differentiation of ancient with modern inhabitants is established. The paper discusses this issue:
The significant differentiation between the ancient Peruvian coastal populations (Shimada et al., 2004; this study) to the ancient highland and modern Peruvian populations cannot be explained satisfyingly in this moment. Although a recent work of Lewis (2009) shows [...]
From the paper:
Median times since the onset of population growth are 1,863 (513–6,625), 1,027 (97–6,656), and 901 (38–6,497) generations ago, for the San, Biaka and Mandenka, respectively. Given a generation interval of 28 years [21], these values correspond to chronological dates of 52, 29 and 25 thousand years ago (or 37, 21 and 18 kya [...]
The third issue of volume 10 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available online, containing the following articles:
A three-step decomposition method for the evolutionary design of sequential logic circuits
by Houjun Liang, Wenjian Luo and Xufa Wang
Evolutionary design of evolutionary algorithms
by Laura Dioşan and Mihai Oltean
Semantic analysis of program initialisation in genetic programming
by Lawrence [...]
BMC Genetics 2009, 10:39doi:10.1186/1471-2156-10-39
An ancestry informative marker set for determining continental origin: validation and extension using human genome diversity panels
Rami Nassir et al.
Abstract (provisional)
BackgroundCase-control genetic studies of complex human diseases can be confounded by population stratification. This issue can be addressed using panels of ancestry informative markers (AIMs) that can provide substantial population substructure [...]
WASHINGTON – A team of researchers led by Indian origin scientist has come up with a potential new treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the second-leading cause of infant mortality in the world.
Ravindra Singh, associate professor in biomedical sciences at Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine said that more than 95 percent of the sufferers [...]
A a couple of days after I mentioned that levels of violence in populations could be studied by counting traumas, a new study does just that, albeit for much more recent populations.
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology doi:10.1002/oa.1096
Analysis of ante mortem trauma in three modern skeletal populationsM. Steyn et al.
Abstract
When archaeological skeletons are assessed, the prevalence [...]
Before we review my two other elevated disease risks items (see last post), let’s take a first look at one of the other categories in the clinical report – Carrier Status. The report includes possible variants for eight diseases. I am only a carrier for one; Hemchromatosis. I did click that one first to find [...]
Sorry that I’ve been neglecting my duties, but family functions have gotten in the way. . . . and I’m afraid we’re in for another week of it before it gets any better.
Last week was Grandkids’ Week which we spend at the cabin — no internet. Beginning today we go to Clifftop — no internet. [...]
I’m pleased to announce that the following open access electronic journals published by Libertas Academica are now indexed in CABI Abstracts:
Air, Soil and Water Research
Gene Regulation and Systems Biology