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Origins of Domestic Cat

New York Times: Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Near East, an audacious wildcat crept into one of the crude villages of early human settlers, the first to domesticate wheat and barley. There...

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DNA Testing Proves Part-Wolf Shot in Vermont

92-lb. (41.82 kg) animal shot October 1, 2006 in Troy, Vermont Rutland Herald 10/10: A 92-pound (41.82 kg) canine shot in Troy last October may be the first confirmed wolf to roam the Green Mountains...

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DNA Tests Show “Chupacabra” Really a Coyote

BBC: US scientists say an animal found in Texas is not the chupacabra – or goat-sucker – of American myth, but a coyote with a hair loss problem. DNA tests on the carcass found at a ranch south-east...

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DNA Study Confirms Liverpool’s Viking Roots

Guardian: The region around Liverpool was once a major Viking settlement, according to a genetic study of men living in the area. The research tapped into this Viking ancestry by focusing on people...

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Odin Was Traditionally the Source of All Grey Eyes

Genetic studies apparently have found a mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today. But aren’t the divergences of...

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Study Suggests: Humans Nearly Became Extinct 70,000 Years Ago

AP: Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests. The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa,...

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German Villagers Proven to be Descendants of Nearby Bronze Age Burials

Lichtensteinhöhle skeletons British newspapers report that living residents of Nienstedt, a village in the foothills of the Harz Mountains in Lower Saxony, have been found by DNA analysis to be...

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Neanderthal Mitochondrial DNA Sequenced

Science News: Results show modern humans, Neandertals diverged 660,000 years ago An international consortium of researchers reports in the Aug. 8 Cell that for the first time the complete sequence of...

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European Genetics and Geography

The New York Times summarizes an article on European Genetics from Current Biology which arrives the conclusion that it could very likely be possible to identify the nationality of Europeans by...

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Blue Eyes Inherited From Single Ancestor

Everyone with blue eyes shares a common matrilineal ancestor who lived between 6000 and 10000 years ago. LiveScience

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More Than DNA to It

Scientific evidence has been found that currently unknown forms of stored data beyond DNA may function in the transmission of inherited traits. Science Daily: Scientists at the Centre for Addiction...

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Who Killed the Men of England?

Jonathan Shaw in Harvard Magazine explains that studies of population DNA suggest that an effective policy of sexual apartheid practiced by the newly arrived Anglo-Saxons could have eliminated British...

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Dandelion Or Orchid?

Are you a genetically a dandelion or an orchid? Both have their place in the evolutionary scheme of things according to a recent article in the Atlantic by David Dobbs. Most of us have genes that make...

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New Zealand Antique Dealer Hopes For Earldom

Arms of the Duke of Northumberland A New Zealand representative of the Percy family is attempting to claim the earldom and estates of the ancient Percy family of Northumberland on the basis of a...

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Belgian Magazine Study Proves Hitler Was Jewish

Herr Schickelgruber The old Allied canard that Hitler was really Jewish may actually be true. The Telegraph report is vague and is clearly written by someone who does not really understand...

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Presumptive DNA of Louis XVI Identified

A new paper in Forensic Science International: Genetics by Carles Lalueza-Fox, Elena Gigli, Carla Bini, Francesc Calafella, Donata Luiselli, Susi Pelotti, and Davide Pettener details the results of...

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DNA Testing and a Legend of the Roman Origin of a Chinese Village

Cai Junnian has green eyes Newspaper reports are sketchy. They never mention the specifics of the testing or identify the alleged results, and they do not offer a mention of the names of the...

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Iceman’s Last Meal: Ibex

South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology photo Science quotes, from a lecture given at the 7th World Congress on Mummy Studies, the latest findings concerning Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, found in...

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Connecticut Lion Came From South Dakota

The last confirmed (until now) mountain lion resident in the Northeastern United States was killed by a trapper in Somerset County, Maine in 1938. Mountain lions are thought by the wildlife experts to...

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Scientists Find Probable Amerindian DNA in Iceland

The discovery of a new mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) subclade (C1e) in Iceland of Haplogroup C, characteristic of population groups found in Northeast Asia and of Amerindians is identified in a new paper...

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Was Napoleon Bonaparte Jewish, or Even Descended from the Moors?

Antoine-Jean Gros, Bonaparte sur le pont d’Arcole, c. 1801, Château de Versailles It has become possible recently to identify Napoleon’s dna from samples taken from male descendants of his brothers....

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1% of Scots Descend From Berbers and Tuaregs

Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders charging just for fun. (click on image for larger version) The Scotsman reports some surprising results from recent Scottish DNA research. ScotlandsDNA, the...

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Melungeon DNA Results Reported

Some claim that Abraham Lincoln descended from a Melungeon family via his mother, Nancy Hanks. Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley, Ava Gardner, Loretta Lynn and George C. Scott, Tom Hanks and Heather...

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DNA Study Shows All Modern Cattle Descend From 80 Wild Cattle

Aurochs, Bos primigenius Molecular Biology and Evolution: All cattle are descended from as few as 80 animals that were domesticated from wild ox in the Near East some 10,500 years ago, according to a...

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Chromosomal Evidence That Mankind Nearly Went Extinct

A leading causal candidate for the human genetic bottleneck is the volcanic supereruption that formed Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia. Sam Kean, in Slate, explains that the number of human chromosomes...

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Genomes Used to Find Routes of Bacterial Infection

Klebsiella pneumoniae The New York Times has a scary and intriguing medical detective story. The ambulance sped up to the red brick federal research hospital on June 13, 2011, and paramedics rushed a...

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New Genetic Study Supports Theory That Ashkenazi Jews Descend From Khazars

90% of living Jews are European (Askenazi) Jews. There are two theories of the origin of European Jewry: the Rhineland Hypothesis contends that European Jews fled Palestine after the Roman destruction...

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Human Sacrifice in Kent

Late Bronze Age sacrificial pit: three murdered people and the head of a cow Scienceblogs: From British Archaeology #131 (July/August): [There was] a Wessex Archaeology dig in 2004-05 at Cliffs End...

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Not Only From the Apes…

Ingrid Newkirk of PETA contends that, really, “A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy.” Newkirk’s pig=boy equivalence receives support from Phys.Org, which links a scientific blog-site listing a long series...

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Genetic Testing of Yeti Hair

Geneticist Bryan Sykes may have identified the mysterious Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. BBC story with video. Research by a British scientist has concluded that the legendary Himalayan yeti may...

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