Alan Rogers
@alanrogers.bsky.social
Population geneticist at U of Utah studying history and adaptative evolution in humans. Author of "The Evidence for Evolution". I also dabble in evolutionary ecology.
Logarithmic history just published an essay about the 80:20 hybridization event that formed the ancestral population of modern humans: logarithmichistory.wordpress.com
Logarithmic History
The history of the universe -- from the Big Bang to the end of the year -- day by day
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Does anyone know who coined the term "incomplete lineage sorting"? It wasn't Pamilo and Nei 1988.
"the genetic foundation for extended adrenarche is shared between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and may have deeper hominin roots" www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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PSMC estimates of Ne now reach back not merely 2 My but more like 8. Estimates from humans, chimps, and bonobos share a peak between 3 and 6 Mya, which may reflect a complex speciation event separating hominins and panins. mcb.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
Genetic Estimates of Population History Reach Even Farther into ...
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They keep saying that renewable energy "locks in" fossil fuels. This looks like a lockout to me.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoAnother for instance! Down in Queensland, Australia, fossil gas used to provide all the peak power. Then batteries start nibbling at it. Then chomping on it. And now they've basically eaten it all up. No more gas. Look at this graphic! Glorious. reneweconomy.com.au/big-batterie...
Will the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (@isbarchaeology.bsky.social) be meeting in 2027? Their website still lists the "upcoming" meeting in 2025.
The genome of the Pacific acorn barnacle provides insights into the evolution of extremely large populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.27.721231v1
Retaliatory gerrymandering should be just the beginning:
It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression
The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.
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Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today — theonion.com/biologists-c...
Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today
STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...
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Morez Jacobs et al used 45k genomes to localize Neandertal haplotypes w/i the British; used these to infer the SFS of the introgressing Neandertals; and then inferred population history parameters of the introgressing pop. Also lots about selection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Population replacement in Neolithic France at the end of the megalith period. scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
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The Neanderthal population history and the introgression landscape inferred from the UK Biobank https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716297v1
This is the most delightful thing I’ve ever read
RM@dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17). A rather unremarkable sliver. At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)? Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
“Human ancestors interbred with two distinct populations of distant relatives” nice new preprint by @alanrogers.bsky.social @colinmbrand.bsky.social @timwebster.bsky.social showing that “archaics” & “moderns” interbred with two distinct “superarchaic” populations 🧪🧬💀
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Can anyone tell me what software makes graphs like this (from Cousins, Scally, and Durbin 2025)?
Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
"Trump’s National Security Strategy made one thing brutally clear and that is that the United States is no longer fully shaping its own foreign policy. The document reads like parts of it were written in Moscow and stamped in Washington." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
BOMBSHELL: Russia Was Planning a Massive Terrorist Attack on Europe and the U.S. in 2024
Shocking new story out of The Financial Times (paywalled) that supports a BBC report from last year: Russia has been conducting a terror war against the rest of Europe for years. Assassinations, acts ...
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I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics
A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Alan Rogers@alanrogers.bsky.social · 9mo agoHow much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
Measuring the Phylogenetic Information in Proteins
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This is the consequences when we chose the wrong direction.
He wasn’t even adjusting anything he was walking calmly when they opened fire on him
I've received some information from a local about the individual accused of being the SLC shooter (who did not fire, was shot by 'official' security who also hit and killed an unrelated person He'd done armed protesting before. Dressed more radically. Was a little awkward. no more than that
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last yr.The shooting at the Salt Lake City protest is strange. The guy with the AR never fired it, and instead appears to have been engaged by "peacekeepers" or protest "security" in yellow security vests?
