Abstract Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago had
climates resembling those forecasted under future warming. Palaeoclimatic records show …

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

Phylogenetic placement refers to a family of tools and methods to analyze, visualize, and
interpret the tsunami of metagenomic sequencing data generated by high-throughput …

Abstract From ad 567–568, at the onset of the Avar period, populations from the Eurasian
Steppe settled in the Carpathian Basin for approximately 250 years. Extensive sampling for …

During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic
changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood …

Large-scale genomic projects and ancient DNA innovations have ushered in a new
paradigm for exploring human evolutionary history. However, the genetic legacy of …

Human Y-chromosomes are characterized by nonrecombination and uniparental
inheritance, carrying traces of human history evolution and admixture. Large-scale …

The indigenous population of the Canary Islands, which colonized the archipelago around
the 3rd century CE, provides both a window into the past of North Africa and a unique model …

The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346–1353) on European
populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by …

Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) is one of the most isolated inhabited places in the
world. It has captured the imagination of many owing to its archaeological record, which …