Denisovans, a group of now extinct humans who lived in Eastern Eurasia in the Middle and
Late Pleistocene, were first identified from DNA sequences just over a decade ago. Only ten …

The identification of a new hominin group in the Altai mountains called Denisovans was one
of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade. Unlike Neanderthal …

Although it is well known that the ancestors of modern humans and Neanderthals admixed,
the effects of gene flow on the Neanderthal genome are not well understood. We develop …

Genetic kinship of ancient individuals can provide insights into their culture and social
hierarchy, and is relevant for downstream genetic analyses. However, estimating …

Among mammals, post-reproductive life spans are currently documented only in humans
and a few species of toothed whales. Here we show that a post-reproductive life span exists …

Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an
increasingly complex picture of their populations' structure that mostly indicates that late …

The Paleo‐fantasy of a deep history to a sexual division of labor, often described as “Man
the Hunter and Woman the Gatherer,” continues to dominate the literature. We see it used as …

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals underwent hybridization during the Middle/Upper
Paleolithic age, culminating in retention of small amounts of Neanderthal-derived DNA in the …

Studies have found a pronounced decline in male effective population sizes worldwide
around 3000–5000 years ago. This bottleneck was not observed for female effective …

Growing evidence from archaic and early modern human genomes brings new insights to
the emergence of modern humans. We recount recent information collected from ancient …