Genetic anthropology

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The evolutionary history of the hominin hand since the last common ancestor of Pan and Homo. Tocheri MW, Orr CM, Jacofsky MC, Marzke MW. J Anat. 2008 Apr;212(4):544-62. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00865.x . PMID: #18380869# (Free)
Flores hominid: new species or microcephalic dwarf? Martin RD, Maclarnon AM, Phillips JL, Dobyns WB. Anat Rec A Discov Mol Cell Evol Biol. 2006 Nov;288(11):1123-45. PMID: #17031806# (...)

The roles of fossil human populations in the origin of modern humans have been enigmatic. Earlier (archaic) human populations were biologically similar and were in recurrent temporal and geographic contact, making interbreeding between ancient populations likely.
Regardless of the taxonomic status of these populations, adaptive alleles may have introgressed from archaic populations into modern humans.
When an introgressed archaic allele has a selective advantage, even rare interbreeding (...)

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Rollo F, Luciani S, Canapa A, Marota I. Analysis of bacterial DNA in skin and muscle of the Tyrolean iceman offers new insight into the mummification process. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2000 Feb;111(2):211-9. PMID: #10640948#
Rollo F, Marota I. How microbial ancient DNA, found in association with human remains, can be interpreted. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1999 Jan 29;354(1379):111-9. PMID: #10091251#
Canapa A, Marota I, Rollo F, Olmo E. The small-subunit rRNA gene (...)

Molecular paleontology is the recovery of DNA from ancient human, animal, and plant.
It remains is an innovative research field that has received progressively more attention from the scientific community since the 1980s. In the last decade, the field was punctuated by claims which aroused great interest but eventually turned out to be fakes—the most famous being the sequence of dinosaur DNA later shown to be of human origin. At present, the discipline is characterized by some certainties (...)

Neandertal man

genetic anthropology