Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from quartz can be used to determine when
sedimentary archives were deposited. OSL dating uses the accumulation of energy stored in …

BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

We sequenced the genomes of a∼ 7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight∼ 8,000-
year-old hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

The availability of complete human genome sequences from populations across the world
has given rise to new population genetic inference methods that explicitly model ancestral …

It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside
Africa 47,000–65,000 years ago. Here we analyse the genomes of a Neanderthal and a …

Background Haemoglobinopathies constitute the commonest recessive monogenic
disorders worldwide, and the treatment of affected individuals presents a substantial global …

The hominin record from southern Asia for the early Late Pleistocene epoch is scarce. Well-
dated and well-preserved fossils older than∼ 45,000 years that can be unequivocally …

On the basis of fossil and archaeological data it has been hypothesized that the exodus of
Homo sapiens out of Africa and into Eurasia between~ 50–120 thousand years ago …