The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process

JAJ Gowlett - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

The prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man

R Levy - Brain, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
The prefrontal cortex is so important to human beings that, if deprived of it, our behaviour is
reduced to action-reactions and automatisms, with no ability to make deliberate decisions …

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals

H Zeberg, S Pääbo - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
A recent genetic association study identified a gene cluster on chromosome 3 as a risk locus
for respiratory failure after infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals

H Zeberg, S Pääbo - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021‏ - pnas.org
It was recently shown that the major genetic risk factor associated with becoming severely ill
with COVID-19 when infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

K Prüfer, C De Filippo, S Grote, F Mafessoni, P Korlević… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
To date, the only Neandertal genome that has been sequenced to high quality is from an
individual found in Southern Siberia. We sequenced the genome of a female Neandertal …

Robust and scalable inference of population history from hundreds of unphased whole genomes

J Terhorst, JA Kamm, YS Song - Nature genetics, 2017‏ - nature.com
It has recently been demonstrated that inference methods based on genealogical processes
with recombination can uncover past population history in unprecedented detail. However …

Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids

AH Moeller, A Caro-Quintero, D Mjungu, AV Georgiev… - Science, 2016‏ - science.org
The evolutionary origins of the bacterial lineages that populate the human gut are unknown.
Here we show that multiple lineages of the predominant bacterial taxa in the gut arose via …

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

K Prüfer, F Racimo, N Patterson, F Jay… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
We present a high-quality genome sequence of a Neanderthal woman from Siberia. We
show that her parents were related at the level of half-siblings and that mating among close …

Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

Q Fu, H Li, P Moorjani, F Jay, SM Slepchenko… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
We present the high-quality genome sequence of a∼ 45,000-year-old modern human male
from Siberia. This individual derives from a population that lived before—or simultaneously …

Exploring population size changes using SNP frequency spectra

X Liu, YX Fu - Nature genetics, 2015‏ - nature.com
Inferring demographic history is an important task in population genetics. Many existing
inference methods are based on predefined simplified population models, which are more …