Africa, the churning continent
Gene Expression,
Martin Meredith’s The Fortunes of Africa glosses very quickly over one of the major reasons that the “great scramble” for the…
Ancient Europeans: isolated, always on the edge of extinction
Gene Expression,
A few years ago I suggested to the paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer that the first modern humans who arrived in Europe did…
The sons of Ham and Shem
Gene Expression,
Recently I had the pleasure of having lunch with David Reich and he asked me about my opinions in relation to the Afro-Asiatic…
The great Bantu expansion was massive
Gene Expression,
Lots of stuff at SMBE of interest to me. I went to the Evolution meeting last year, and it was a little thin on genetics for me.