In this article, we both contend and illustrate that biological anthropologists, particularly in
the Americas, often think like Bayesians but act like frequentists when it comes to analyzing …

The rich linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity of Ethiopia provides an unprecedented
opportunity to understand the level to which cultural factors correlate with–and shape …

With recent advances, nuclear genome data for phylogenomic analyses can now be
sequenced from minuscule quantities of DNA 1 and from specimens that are more than a …

Rare mitochondrial lineages with relict distributions can sometimes be disproportionately
informative about deep events in human prehistory. We have studied one such lineage …

The synthesis of biological anthropology, archaeology, and social theory provides a
bioarchaeological model to reconstruct nuanced aspects of demography, diet, disease …

The mitochondrial genome has a number of characteristics that provide useful information to
forensic investigations. Massively parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies offer …

Abstract Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup L2 originated in Western Africa but is
nowadays spread across the entire continent. L2 movements were previously postulated to …

Archaeological and genomic evidence suggest that modern Homo sapiens have roamed the
planet for some 300–500 thousand years. In contrast, global human mitochondrial (mtDNA) …

Background The main unequivocal conclusion after three decades of phylogeographic
mtDNA studies is the African origin of all extant modern humans. In addition, a southern …

Abstract Throughout the Holocene, Lake Turkana has been subject to drastic changes in
lake levels and the subsistence strategies people employ to survive in this hot and arid …