Out in today’s Science is Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia
Asia harbors substantial cultural and linguistic diversity, but the geographic structure of genetic variation across the continent remains enigmatic. Here we report a large-scale survey of autosomal variation from a broad geographic sample of Asian human populations. Our results show that genetic [...]
Version 1.5.3 of BEAST (the most powerful Bayesian phylogenetics software available), has been released. Lots and lots of bugfixes!
Crux is a software toolkit for molecular phylogenetic inference that runs on (at least) Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. It is structured as a set of Python modules, which makes it possible to quickly develop Python scripts that perform unique, non-canned analyses.
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Justin Barrett and Brian Malley have a rather intriguing paper out in the Journal of Cognition and Culture: A Cognitive Typology of Religious Actions (doi:10.1163/156853707X208486):
The rapid but disproportionate growth of the cognitive science of religion in some areas, coupled with the desire to meaningfully connect with more traditional, function-inspired classifications, has [...]
