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by Richard McCulloch Every living creature, every species or race, has certain conditions that are required for its continued existence. Its environment or habitat must fulfill these conditions or it will not be able to live. It may die quickly, like a fish out of water or a mammal without air to breathe.

by John Beddoe Summary : An excerpt on the Normans from The Races of Britain. CHAPTER VIII. The Normans The racial character of the immigration which is commonly and for shortness called Norman requires some consideration. The army of the Conqueror was drawn not only from Normandy, but from several other provinces of France.

Both Razib and Dienekes have put a posts about this new Current Biology paper, “Correlation between Genetic and Geographic Structure in Europe.” The authors of the paper compare the genetic make up of 2,514 individuals from Europe using the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 500K Array Set.

Scientific American has a news piece explaining the implications of one of the new studies on the human genome that I reported on last week. In a nutshell, the news piece explains how the identification of 250 new regions throughout the genome impacts the current human reference genome… raising

Some interesting research about the evolutionary development of the human skull is being reported by UC Davis. The researchers have concluded that random change - called genetic drift in the parlance - accounts for most of the differences between human and Neandertal skulls.

Today’s early issue of PNAS includes a paper by Tim Weaver, Charles Roseman and Chris Stringer who revisit the chance or natural selection issue in regards to Neandertal and modern human speciation. You may remember they published a paper in August of 2007, in which they basically concluded that

In last week’s issue of Nature, we saw two really important papers on large scale human population genetic structure be published. The first was, “Proportionally more deleterious genetic variation in European than in African populations,” and the second was, “Genotype, haplotype and copy-number

One more from Molecular Biology and Evolution, this time investigating whether or not diversity seen in 280 bases of mtDNA from 886 people from 27 indigenous Americans is localized amongst populations.