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Whoa, Neandertals were in Uzbekistan and Siberia
Thanks to the very helpful readers who have sent me a copy of the latest from Pääbo and crew, “Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia.” I’ve read it, and it is a pretty good paper with solid methods....
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Neandertals have the same mutations in FOXP2, the language gene, as modern...
FOXP2 is thought to be a language gene. It is highly conserved in most mammals but in humans there are two unique mutations in the protein caused by nucleotide substitutions at positions 911 and 977 of...
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A Comparative Genomics approach to finding new Human genes
Adam Siepel, Brona Brejova and colleagues at several other institutions will report in an upcoming issue of the the journal Genome Research on their discoveries. They’ve found about 300 previously...
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Axel Visel’s talk on “The regulatory genome in human-specific evolution”
Today I attended Axel Visel‘s talk about his work in identifying enhancers specific to humans at the Primate Biology Group. It was a really awesome talk, and that’s because I’m really interested in...
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Comparing Copy Number Variations Between Humans & Chimpanzees
The role of copy number variations (CNVs) has been explained before. In 2006 I discussed the identification of 355 CNVs in the chimpanzee genome, later in 2007 a study fished out human lineage-specific...
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