Human evolutionary genetics papers this week....

Discover the latest findings from new analyses of SNPs across the genome in fresh papers this week. Dive into the research!

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I haven't had time to read them, but John Hawks already commented:

A flush of papers this week (two today in Nature, one tomorrow in Science) describe new analyses of SNPs across the genome. Two of the papers sample SNPs in global samples numbering more than 500 individuals.

...and Yann Klimentidis.

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