For the one or two Dealbreaker readers who didn't know, the International Debutante Ball was held at the Waldorf Astoria on December 29. This particular event was founded in 1954, though obviously it roots can be back to the awkward plantation days. Now, families shell out $14,000 per table in addition to other expenses (gowns, hairdressers, lithium, etc) associated with putting their daughters on the market. Sort of sounds like exactly the type of gala ...

Following on from my ShoZu Picture Of The Day, I’m pleased I had my N95 8Gb to hand to record this: Just how bad are the Brits at managing 0.5 inches of snow? from Mobile Industry Review on Vimeo. Yes, it’s a poor chap trying, hope-against-hope, to get his van up a slight hill outside my place in 0.5 inches of snow. If you’ve ever dealt with decent amounts of snow (i.e. had to install ...

No trabalho novo não se usa nada descartável. Todo mundo leva sua própria caneca para o café, para a água ou para o chá. Coisa de empresa ecologicamente consciente. Então não é de se estranhar eu andar agora desejando canecas bonitinhas, afinal, seus objetos dizem muito sobre você, não? Me apaixonei por esse modelo de bichos da loja japonesa Sunny Style. A alça faz as vezes de rabo do desenho principal, e no verso da ...

This paper deals with the issue of how a language family's range (how geographically dispersed it is) provides information about its age (how old it is).I believe that a similar methodology should be applied to the spread of gene variants as well (e.g., Y-chromosome haplogroups). At present, haplogroup ages are estimated only by internal (genetic) information, e.g., the diversity of linked STR loci. However, as I have argued before, there are additional pieces of information: ...

Bardzo mi się spodobał zagraniczny serwis Tumblr. i ponieważ daje on spore możliwości dzielenia się z innymi różnymi znaleziskami, a także jego wygląd można dostosować dowolnie do swoich potrzeb (ale tym zajmę się innym razem), to w to miejsce przenoszę swoje zbieractwo cytatowe i nie tylko… Tumblr Jeden (ten, którego właśnie czytasz) WordPress mi starczy, niech “prostsza aplikacja” zajmuję się kolekcjonowaniem moich wykopalisk. :)

Publication year: 2008Source: Journal of Human Evolution, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 December 2008Rajeev, Patnaik , Parth R., Chauhan , M.R., Rao , B.A.B., Blackwell , A.R., Skinner , ...The oldest known fossil hominin in southern Asia was recovered from Hathnora in the Narmada Basin, central India in the early 1980's. Its age and taxonomic affinities, however, have remained uncertain. Current estimates place its maximum age at >236ka, but not likely older than ...

Publication year: 2008Source: Journal of Human Evolution, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 31 December 2008Scott D., Maddux , Robert G., FranciscusInfraorbital morphology is often included in phylogenetic and functional analyses of Homo. The inclusion of distinct infraorbital configurations, such as the “canine fossa” in Homo sapiens or the “inflated” maxilla in Neandertals, is generally based on either descriptive or qualitative assessments of this morphology, or simple linear chord and subtense measurements. However, the complex ...

Independent histories of human Y chromosomes from Melanesia and Australia. Kayser M, Brauer S, Weiss G, Schiefenhövel W, Underhill PA, Stoneking M. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department for Evolutionary Genetics, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. To investigate the origins and relationships of Australian and Melanesian populations, 611 males from 18 populations from Australia, Melanesia, and eastern/southeastern Asia were typed for eight single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci and seven short tandem-repeat loci on the Y chromosome. A ...

Gene flow from the Indian subcontinent to Australia: evidence from the Y chromosome. Redd AJ, Roberts-Thomson J, Karafet T, Bamshad M, Jorde LB, Naidu JM, Walsh B, Hammer MF. Division of Biotechnology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Phenotypic similarities between Australian Aboriginal People and some tribes of India were noted by T.H. Huxley during the voyage of the Rattlesnake (1846-1850). Anthropometric studies by Birdsell led to his suggestion that a migratory wave into ...

Lisa A. Parr, Erin Hecht, Sarah K. Barks, Todd M. Preuss, John R. Votaw.

Y-chromosome-specific microsatellite variation in Australian aboriginals. Vandenberg N, van Oorschot RA, Tyler-Smith C, Mitchell RJ. Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. The frequency distributions of 4 highly polymorphic Y-chromosome-specific microsatellites (DYS19, DYS390, DYS391, and DYS392) were determined in 79 unrelated Australian Aboriginal males from the Northern Territory. These results are compared with those observed in worldwide populations at both the locus and the haplotype level. Common alleles in Aboriginals ...

Revealing the prehistoric settlement of Australia by Y chromosome and mtDNA analysis Georgi Hudjashova, Toomas Kivisilda,b,c, Peter A. Underhilld, Phillip Endicotte, Juan J. Sanchezf, Alice A. Lind, Peidong Sheng, Peter Oefnerh, Colin Renfrewc,i, Richard Villemsa, and Peter Forsterj, 2007. Published and new samples of Aboriginal Australians and Melanesians were analyzed for mtDNA (n = 172) and Y variation (n = 522), and the resulting profiles were compared with the branches known so far within the ...