Origins of modern human ancestry

A Bergström, C Stringer, M Hajdinjak, EML Scerri… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
New finds in the palaeoanthropological and genomic records have changed our view of the
origins of modern human ancestry. Here we review our current understanding of how the …

Peopling of the Americas as inferred from ancient genomics

E Willerslev, DJ Meltzer - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of
the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown …

The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Palaeogenomics of upper palaeolithic to neolithic European hunter-gatherers

C Posth, H Yu, A Ghalichi, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics

R Maier, P Flegontov, O Flegontova, U Işıldak… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

fastsimcoal2: demographic inference under complex evolutionary scenarios

L Excoffier, N Marchi, DA Marques… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation fastsimcoal2 extends fastsimcoal, a continuous time coalescent-based genetic
simulation program, by enabling the estimation of demographic parameters under very …

Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

M Hajdinjak, F Mafessoni, L Skov, B Vernot, A Hübner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago,,,–, but the extent of their
interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago, and their …

Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities

GA Gnecchi-Ruscone, Z Rácz, L Samu, T Szeniczey… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China

MA Yang, X Fan, B Sun, C Chen, J Lang, YC Ko… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Human genetic history in East Asia is poorly understood. To clarify population relationships,
we obtained genome-wide data from 26 ancient individuals from northern and southern East …

Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas

AR Perri, TR Feuerborn, LAF Frantz, G Larson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …