[HTML][HTML] Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes

R Yaka, I Mapelli, D Kaptan, A Doğu, M Chyleński… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

Test of the universality of τ and μ lepton couplings in W-boson decays with the ATLAS detector

Nature Physics, 2021‏ - nature.com
The standard model of particle physics encapsulates our best current understanding of
physics at the smallest scales. A fundamental axiom of this theory is the universality of the …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

D Koptekin, E Yüncü, R Rodríguez-Varela, NE Altınışık… - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

Paleogenomic evidence for multi-generational mixing between Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the Lower Danube Basin

G González-Fortes, ER Jones, E Lightfoot, C Bonsall… - Current Biology, 2017‏ - cell.com
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming involved profound cultural and
technological changes. In Western and Central Europe, these changes occurred rapidly and …

Ancient genomes reveal Yamnaya-related ancestry and a potential source of Indo-European speakers in Iron Age Tianshan

C Ning, CC Wang, S Gao, Y Yang, X Zhang, X Wu… - Current Biology, 2019‏ - cell.com
Recent studies of early Bronze Age human genomes revealed a massive population
expansion by individuals-related to the Yamnaya culture, from the Pontic Caspian steppe …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient Maltese genomes and the genetic geography of Neolithic Europe

B Ariano, V Mattiangeli, EM Breslin, EW Parkinson… - Current Biology, 2022‏ - cell.com
Archaeological consideration of maritime connectivity has ranged from a biogeographical
perspective that considers the sea as a barrier to a view of seaways as ancient highways …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous hunter-gatherer and steppe-related ancestries in late neolithic and bell beaker genomes from present-day France

A Seguin-Orlando, R Donat, C Der Sarkissian… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
The transition from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age has witnessed important population
and societal changes in western Europe. 1 These include massive genomic contributions of …

[HTML][HTML] Human inbreeding has decreased in time through the Holocene

FC Ceballos, K Gürün, NE Altınışık, HC Gemici… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
The history of human inbreeding is controversial. 1 In particular, how the development of
sedentary and/or agricultural societies may have influenced overall inbreeding levels …

[HTML][HTML] Hunter-gatherer admixture facilitated natural selection in Neolithic European farmers

T Davy, D Ju, I Mathieson, P Skoglund - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
Ancient DNA has revealed multiple episodes of admixture in human prehistory during
geographic expansions associated with cultural innovations. One important example is the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing temporal and geographic contacts across the Adriatic Sea through the analysis of genome-wide data from Southern Italy

A Raveane, L Molinaro, S Aneli, MR Capodiferro… - Genomics, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Southern Italy was characterised by a complex prehistory that started with different
Palaeolithic cultures, later followed by the Neolithization and the demic dispersal from the …