Recent advancements in DNA sequencing technologies and laboratory preparation
protocols have rapidly expanded the scope of ancient DNA research over the past decade …

For at least 1.2 billion years, eukaryotes have been able to synthesize sterols and, therefore,
can produce vitamin D when exposed to UV-B. Vitamin D endocrinology was established …

More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

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 …

Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad
regional scales,,–. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health
problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV …

The nature and distribution of political power in Europe during the Neolithic era remains
poorly understood. During this period, many societies began to invest heavily in building …