Miguel Angel Contreras Sieck💀🧬🦴🇵🇸
@miguelontlacuatzin.bsky.social
Antropólogo enfocado en evolución humana, genética cuantitativa de fenotipos complejos y el desarrollo de paleogenómica ética y sustentable en México. PhD Candidate en la UMN en el AnthGenLab!!
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@sashagusevposts.bsky.social is pretty damn good at this.
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social is pretty damn good at this.
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To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
Analysing Hitler's DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing useful
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
www.newscientist.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
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“We report two obsidian flakes recovered from a now submerged paleolandscape beneath Lake Huron that are conclusively attributed to the Wagontire obsidian source in central Oregon… dating to ~9,000 BP, represent the earliest and most distant reported occurrence of obsidian in eastern North America.”
Central Oregon obsidian from a submerged early Holocene archaeological site beneath Lake Huron
Obsidian, originating from the Rocky Mountains and the West, was an exotic exchange commodity in Eastern North America that was often deposited in elaborate caches and burials associated with Middle W...
journals.plos.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“We report two obsidian flakes recovered from a now submerged paleolandscape beneath Lake Huron that are conclusively attributed to the Wagontire obsidian source in central Oregon… dating to ~9,000 BP, represent the earliest and most distant reported occurrence of obsidian in eastern North America.”
Techbros and AI trying lo revive Phrenology???
I mean why not, every day seems like a worst Black Mirror episode on and on...
I mean why not, every day seems like a worst Black Mirror episode on and on...
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Techbros and AI trying lo revive Phrenology???
I mean why not, every day seems like a worst Black Mirror episode on and on...
I mean why not, every day seems like a worst Black Mirror episode on and on...
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Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies - Communications Biology
A detailed Review across animal and human societies provides insight on the causes and consequences of adult sex ratio skew.
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective
The Equilibrium Conundrum
Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective
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The fossil sample from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa, is one of the largest known of human relatives. Sts 71 (left) and StW 505 (right) are close to the extremes of cranial size of fossils from the site that are usually attributed to Australopithecus africanus. #inktober
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The fossil sample from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa, is one of the largest known of human relatives. Sts 71 (left) and StW 505 (right) are close to the extremes of cranial size of fossils from the site that are usually attributed to Australopithecus africanus. #inktober
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October 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Tomorrow wednesday October 15th at 11am, first seminar of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The history we share with fish’. Come, have a seat and enjoy learning where we come from. Free knowledge, no registration🤘
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Tomorrow wednesday October 15th at 11am, first seminar of @neilshubin.bsky.social , guest Professor @college-de-france.fr on ‘The history we share with fish’. Come, have a seat and enjoy learning where we come from. Free knowledge, no registration🤘
