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Everyone should sign up for one presentation. Only one person may sign up for each paper (sign on the line beneath the article title). All articles are in the course packet.

Sept 11

DNA sequence from Cretaceous period bone fragments, Woodward et al., Science, 1994, 266:1229-1232 AND Technical comments, Science, 1995, 268: 1191-1194

_Alex Rabionet____________________________________________

Sept 18

Contrasting signatures of population growth for mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes among human populations in Africa, Pilkington et al., 2008, Mol Biol Evol, 25:517-525

_Tika Bhardwaj____________________________________________

Rapid deployment of the five founding Amerind mtDNA haplogroups via coastal land riverine colonization, Fix, AJPA, 2005, 128:430-436.

_Haley Vinson____________________________________________

Sept 25

“Are human brains still evolving?” AND Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo sapiens, Mekel-Bobrov et al., Science, 2005, 309:1730-1722 AND 2006 Comment AND 2006 Response to comment AND 2007 Comment

_Megan Ahearn____________________________________________

Oct 2

Implications of natural selection in shaping 99.4% nonsynonymous DNA identity between humans and chimpanzees: Enlarging genus Homo, Wildman et al., 2003, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 100:7181-7188

_Ling-Ling Wolff-Koo____________________________________________

Oct 9

“Anthropologists cast doubt on human DNA evidence” AND “Were Cro-Magnons too like us for DNA to tell?” AND Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and 24,000-year-old anatomically modern Europeans, Caramelli et al., PNAS, 2003, 100:6593-6597.

_Jennifer Lewis____________________________________________

“The dawn of Stone Age genomes” AND “No sex, please, we’re Neandertals” AND Inconsistencies in Neanderthal genomic DNA sequences (Wall and Kim, 2007, PLoS Genetics, 2007, 3:1862-1866).

_Laura Viafora____________________________________________

Oct 16

Evidence for gradients of human genetic diversity within and among continents, Serre and Paabo, Genome Res, 2004, 14:1679-1685

_Sarah Friberg____________________________________________

“Did Early Human Go North or South?” AND Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes, Macaulay et al., Science, 2005, 308:1034-1036

_Alexandra Flores____________________________________________

Oct 23

Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model, Chikhi et al., 2002, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 99:11008-11013

_Daniela Iribarne____________________________________________

Oct 30

DNA from pre-Clovis human coprolites in Oregon, North America, Gilbert et al. 2008, Science, 320:786-789

_Clay Noss____________________________________________

Nov 6

Y chromosomes traveling south: The Cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba – the “Black Jews of southern Africa”, Thomas et al., AJHG, 2000, 66:674-686

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Nov 13

“European skin turned pale only recently, gene suggests” AND “Ancient DNA reveals Neanderthals with red hair, fair complexions” AND A melanocortin 1 receptor allele suggests varying pigmentation among Neanderthals, Lalueza-Fox et al. 2007, ScienceExpress.

_Stephen Sisley____________________________________________

Absence of the lactase-persistence-associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans, Burger et al., PNAS, 2007, 104:3736-3741

__Dylan Lee___________________________________________

Nov 20

Ethics watch, Foster and Sharp, 2008, Nature Reviews Genetics AND Genes ‘R Us, Lehrman, Nov 2007, J Life Sci, 50-55

_Chandni Patel____________________________________________