I’m pleased to announce that Libertas Academica will soon commence development on a new open access journal, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology.
In his forthcoming introductory editorial, the Editor in Chief, Dr Kayvan Najarian writes:
I am pleased to announce the launch of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology – a new peer reviewed open access journal published [...]

I’ve just offered our ‘unused’ codes on the public forums.

I was planning on writing up a more complete narrative for this post, but I don’t think the evidence is -as of yet- strong enough to support very strong speculation. I will simply say that the recent results of Bramanti et al. for a U-dominated older mtDNA stratum in Central/North-eastern Europe can be reasonably extended [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Libertas Academica has commenced development of a new journal, the Indian Journal of Clinical Medicine.
We are fortunate to have Dr Karna Dev Bardhan as Editor in Chief. Dr Bardhan is also Editor in Chief of the successful Clinical Medicine: Case Reports.
The Indian Journal of Clinical Medicine will be an [...]

Folks on the lists are running out of discount codes and asking around for others who may have extras.    We do have a few left but I plan to hold them for Berry related requests at least until mid-day tomorrow.
It will be very helpful if those of you whom I’ve given discount codes to, who [...]

Evolution and Human BehaviorVolume 30, Issue 5, September 2009, Pages 342-350
Physical attractiveness and reproductive success in humans: evidence from the late 20th century United StatesMarkus Jokela
Abstract
Physical attractiveness has been associated with mating behavior, but its role in reproductive success of contemporary humans has received surprisingly little attention. In the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (1244 women, 997 [...]

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ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2009) — An international team of scientists from the Czech Republic, Germany and Japan have developed a new method for improving the properties of enzymes. The method has potential for wide application in the chemical, medicinal and food industries. The research has been published in Nature Chemical Biology.
The modified enzymes can [...]

The arrival of R1b in the east remains a mystery. The few prehistoric samples that have been examined did not belong to it, but rather exclusively to R1a1. While some folks (e.g. Spencer Wells) speak about the arrival of R1b in Europe from Central Asia, I consider this almost certainly false, for a very simple [...]

The link is an article about my daughter, Angie, and her friends.

By Roberta Estes, DNA Explain
Someone asked if the new autosomal testing replaces the traditional Yline and mtdna testing we’ve been having done within and outside of our projects at Family Tree DNA.    The answer is a resounding ABSOLUTELY NOT – THIS DOES NOT REPLACE TRADITIONAL GENEALOGY TESTING!!!    Don’t think for a minute that [...]