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Please, Have a Seat: Sitting Height Ratio and Human Variation
Two populations can differ in height, but they can also differ in something more specific: how height is distributed between torso and legs.
 • Davide Piffer
Modern Middle Eastern inbreeding patterns may have very deep roots
One of the most common claims in ancient DNA research is that the Neolithic transition reduced inbreeding.
 • Davide Piffer
The Dating Study Everyone Is Sharing Is Being Misread
A large new study on romantic preferences has been circulating widely online, often with the same triumphant interpretation: the redpill was right.
 • Davide Piffer
Was Pale Skin an Elite Trait?
Skin pigmentation in Europe is one of the best-known cases of recent human evolution.
 • Davide Piffer
Italy’s Fertility Collapse Is No Longer About Delay
For decades, Italy's extremely low fertility has been explained away as postponement.
 • Davide Piffer
Neanderthals Interbred With Us. How Genetically Different Were They?
On divergence, hybridization, and the limits of species labels
 • Davide Piffer
Europeans Didn’t Evolve as One Population
Ancient DNA shows that ancestry influences traits, but evolutionary trajectories reshape them
 • Davide Piffer
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