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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary genetics and admixture in African populations

A Pfennig, LN Petersen, P Kachambwa… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
As the ancestral homeland of our species, Africa contains elevated levels of genetic diversity
and substantial population structure. Importantly, African genomes are heterogeneous: They …

Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation

S Fan, JP Spence, Y Feng, MEB Hansen, J Terhorst… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
We conduct high coverage (> 30×) whole-genome sequencing of 180 individuals from 12
indigenous African populations. We identify millions of unreported variants, many predicted …

Deep-time phylogenetic inference by paleoproteomic analysis of dental enamel

AJ Taurozzi, PL Rüther, I Patramanis, C Koenig… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In temperate and subtropical regions, ancient proteins are reported to survive up to about 2
million years, far beyond the known limits of ancient DNA preservation in the same areas …

A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa

AP Ragsdale, TD Weaver, EG Atkinson, EG Hoal… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty
surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent. Progress is …

Modeling of African population history using f-statistics is biased when applying all previously proposed SNP ascertainment schemes

P Flegontov, U Işıldak, R Maier, E Yüncü… - PloS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to genetic data

R Maier, P Flegontov, O Flegontova, P Changmai… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Our understanding of human population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting
“admixture graphs” to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

A genomic history of the North Pontic Region from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age

AG Nikitin, I Lazaridis, N Patterson, S Ivanova… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Abstract The North Pontic Region was the meeting point of the farmers of Old Europe and
the foragers and pastoralists of the Eurasian steppe,, and the source of migrations deep into …

Birch tar production does not prove Neanderthal behavioral complexity

P Schmidt, M Blessing, M Rageot… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Birch tar production by Neanderthals—used for hafting tools—has been interpreted as one
of the earliest manifestations of modern cultural behavior. This is because birch tar …