You've probably heard about this story. Check out Afarensis and Anthropology.net for a summary of the science. But Kambiz also has some juicy gossip about the back-story here....
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As you may have noticed, founding father Kambiz has been very busy lately, and his brainchild the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival has not quite received the attention it needs.
Kambiz @ Anthropology.net has an excellent review of the case of the Ch
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Kambiz Kamrani of Anthropology, normally a rather staid blogger, has posted something ti
Cavalli-Sforza, "The History and Geography of Human Genes", p. 234, has Negritos and Palauans together on their own branch of the SE Asian genetic tree. Only 25 peoples are in the tree so I don't know how much that means, but these two peoples are distinguished from the Yapese and Kanakas (whoever the Kanakas are, it's a generic term).