Tag Archives: Europe

Population replacements and founder effects in humans

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

TREE has an article in press looking at the impact of founder events on subsequent patterns of genetic diversity. The main argument of the paper, co-authored by Waters, Fraser & Hewitt (Founder takes all: density-dependent processes structure biodiversity), is that … Continue reading →

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Population level extinction in human prehistory readings, part 1

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

One of my current research projects is investigating the potential impact of population level extinction in human evolutionary history. I am focusing my efforts on Late Pleistocene Europe because it is a time and a place that we have a … Continue reading →

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Neandertal anti-defamation files

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Kyle Jarrard has a piece at The Huffington Post on changing attitudes about Neandertal competence: No more can we say that old Neanderthal — prototype of shaggy man with absolutely zero smarts — didn’t know what he was doing. And … Continue reading →

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Neandertal demographic collapse

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Love Dalén, Anders Götherström and colleagues have an interesting short article available in advance view in Molecular Biology and Evolution. The article argues, on the basis of Neandertal mtDNA data, for a distinction between Western and Eastern Neandertals, with the … Continue reading →

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