What early Europeans might have looked like

Today’s Daily Mail reports on an upcoming BBC2 program in which a forensic scientist Richard Neve, using 40,000-year-old bones, recreated the face of a very early inhabitant of Europe.  This was soon after “modern Homo sapiens” began migrating out of Africa and populatint the world (ca. 100,000 to 60,000 years ago).
From the article:
To sculpt the [...]

The evolutionary biology of the swine flu virus

Carl Zimmer has a good article in today’s New York Times describing the swine flu virus (“H1N1″) as well as other pathogenic viruses, where they come from, and how they evolve.  It turns out that the swine flu virus actually derived from humans — from the strain that caused the terrible influenza epidemic of 1918 [...]