Sept 6 - James Barnes, DNA sequence from Cretaceous bone fragment

Sept 13 - Caroline Hovaner, Rapid deployment of the five founding Amerind mtDNA haplogroups via coastal and riverine colonization

Sept 13 - Joe Wilson, Global patterns of human mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome structure are not influenced by higher migration rates of females vs males

Sept 20 - Kristina Ballard, Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo sapiens

Sept 27 - Dawit Okubatsion, Implications of natural selection in shaping 99.4% nonsynonymous DNA identity between humans and chimpanzees: Enlarging genus Homo

October 4 - Ben Valentine, Neanderthal genome

Oct 11 - Cory Blommel, Evidence for gradients of human genetic diversity within and among continents

Oct 18 - Gordon Brown, Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model

Nov 1 - Aida MIro, Y chromosomes traveling south: The Cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba - the "Black Jews of Southern Africa"

Nov 15 - Gypsy Price, Haplotype diversity and linkage disequilibrium at the human G6PD: Recent origin of alleles that confer malaria resistance