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https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2006/04/ Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: April 2006 on evolution, genetics, human diversity, evolutionary ecology, physiology and more... yann klimentidisweblogapril https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2010/01/genetics-of-hunter-gatherers-and-early.html?showComment=1436327496643 Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Genetics of hunter-gatherers and early farmers in Europe I'm back, and will try to be more regular about posting. This paper came out a few months ago in Science and I've been meaning to look at it... yann klimentidis https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2009/08/epigenetics-and-disease-causality.html?showComment=1249530088813 Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Epigenetics and disease causality Obviously this has a lot of important implications, one of which is the fact that we may be overestimating the heritability of traits like ... yann klimentidisweblogepigeneticsdiseasecausality https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2006/11/tying-testosterone-immune-function-and.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Tying testosterone, immune function, and sexual signaling. From what I can glean, testosterone increases coloration, but is also immunosuppressant, and it seems like extra carotenoids are first diver... yann klimentidisimmune functionweblogtyingtestosterone https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2012/03/predicting-pigmentation-phenotypes-with.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Predicting pigmentation phenotypes with genetic information This is a very short paper and their methods are fairly simplistic. They pick some SNPs from the literature, and count the number of homozyg... yann klimentidisweblogpredictingpigmentationphenotypes https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2007/05/american-naturalist.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: The American Naturalist Razib has a link to a list of the most cited paper, by decade, published in The American Naturalist on that journal's 140th Birthday - the... yann klimentidisthe americanweblognaturalist https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2007/11/actn3-in-west-vs-east-african-athletes.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: ACTN3 in West vs. East African Athletes It's nice to see negative results like this one published. Some studies have found associations between this ACTN3 allele and endurance vs. ... yann klimentidiseast africanweblogwestvs https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2011/06/persistence-hunting-is-it-really.html?showComment=1311269569701 Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Persistence hunting - is it really possible? Here's an interesting post from John Hawks' blog about a magazine article about running, evolution (and hunting?) enthusiasts who try to se... yann klimentidispersistence huntingweblogreallypossible https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2007/07/cranial-sizes-and-distance-from-africa.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Cranial sizes and distance from Africa I wonder if their test is really able to detect if there was even a tiny bit of a "second origin"... otherwise this looks pretty cool, thoug... yann klimentidisweblogcranialsizesdistance https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2008/09/four-stone-hearth-anthroplogy-blog.html?showComment=1369815285785 Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival I'm happy to be hosting the 50th edition of the Four Stone Hearth Anthropology Blog Carnival ! We've got a wide array of Anthropology topics... four stone hearthyann klimentidiswebloganthropologycarnival https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2007/01/marathon-mice.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Marathon mice A new paper is out where transgenic mice that over-express PGC1alpha exhibit greater endurance capacity. Science Blog link It would be int... yann klimentidisweblogmarathonmice https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2008/01/herc2-and-eye-color-variation.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: HERC2 and eye color variation OCA2 has been the one of the main genes thought to be responsible for eye color variation (see here ). Now, two papers in AJHG (open access,... yann klimentidiseye colorweblogvariation https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2008/08/cultured-melanocytes-genotypes-and-gene.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: Cultured melanocytes, genotypes and gene expression of skin color genes Analysis of Cultured Human Melanocytes Based on Polymorphisms within the SLC45A2/MATP, SLC24A5/NCKX5, and OCA2/P Loci Anthony L Cook, Wei Ch... https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2007/11/sickle-cell-genes-recent-introgression.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: The sickle cell gene's recent introgression into East Africa This is a "Short Report" and it is indeed very short! It seems like they assume that patterns of mt-DNA and Y-chromosome diversity are not s... https://yannklimentidis.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-wanted-to-do-this-eating-behavior-at.html Yann Klimentidis' Weblog: I wanted to do this!! - Eating behavior at Chinese buffets Dang!!, I've always wanted to do a study like this, but these researchers beat me to the punch. The things they look at here are pretty inte...