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Henry
http://henry.simon.net.nz
Henry is interested in human evolution. In particular, language and culture evolution, linguistics, genetics, phylogenetics, human prehistory, evolutionary theory, psychology, anthropology and neuroscience, and the interaction of all this fun stuff
Recent Posts
Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite
Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite: "Things are looking mighty fine," announced the prehistoric invertebrate, taking measure of his surroundings through a series of small, hexagonal eyelets located at the tip of his thorax. "Sul...
Mapping human genetic diversity in Asia
Out in today's Science is Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia Asia harbors substantial cultural and linguistic diversity, but the geographic structure of genetic variation across the continent remains enigmatic. Here we report a large-scale surv...
BEAST v1.5.3 released
Version 1.5.3 of BEAST (the most powerful Bayesian phylogenetics software available), has been released. Lots and lots of bugfixes! Related Posts:The Drummond Lab Blog: Computational Biology and EvolutionA General Comparison of Relaxed Molecular Cloc...
Beatles 3000
Do you ever have the nagging doubt that anthropology gets it ever so slightly wrong? Related Posts:21 accents, 2 and 1/2 minutesCharles Darwin: GeniusK. David Harrison interview - "Why languages die"What could be cooler than a dinosaur ROCK band?Mus...
Crux – A python library for molecular phylogenetics
Crux is a software toolkit for molecular phylogenetic inference that runs on (at least) Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. It is structured as a set of Python modules, which makes it possible to quickly develop Python scripts that perform unique, non-can...
H.M.’s brain to be dissected live online
If you've ever heard anything about cognitive psychology, then you've probably heard about H.M. Henry Gustav Molaison (February 26, 1926 – December 2, 2008), better known as HM or H.M., was a memory-impaired patient who was widely studied from the...

