Large brains not required? Third and smallest skull of 'first Eurasians' reported in Science
.......... , published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science....... The scientists found a petite new individual, with...Indian caste groups have differing genetic relationships to Europeans and Asians
.A new study of genetic data shows that the ancestors of Indian men came from different parts of the world than those of Indian women and produced modern upper caste Indian populations that are genetically more similar to Europeans and lower caste populations that are more similar to Asians. These findings support historical data suggesting that West Eurasians migrating into India during the l...Study supports out-of-Africa origin for East Asians
.University Park, Pa. An international study of Y chromosomal DNA shows that East Asian populations migrated out of Africa and suggests that little or no interbreeding of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens occurred after the migration. . "Our goal was to test the hypothesis that the common origin of human populations is in Africa," says co-author Dr. Mark D. Shriver, assistant professor of anthropol...Gene mutation tied to deafness found in African-Americans and Caucasians
. Chapel Hill - A new study at the University of North.Carolina at Chapel Hill is the first to establish that a mutation in a gene.associated with about 20 percent of all cases of hereditary deafness found in.Whites is also found in blacks.. . "There have been some reports in the scientific literature on Caucasians.but only a small study on African-Americans, and they didn't find...