Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

A Scally, R Durbin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
It is now possible to make direct measurements of the mutation rate in modern humans
using next-generation sequencing. These measurements reveal a value that is …

Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

HS Groucutt, MD Petraglia, G Bailey… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Current fossil, genetic, and archeological data indicate that Homo sapiens originated in
Africa in the late Middle Pleistocene. By the end of the Late Pleistocene, our species was …

Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago

CM Schlebusch, H Malmström, T Günther, P Sjödin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo
sapiens. We present genome sequences, up to 13x coverage, from seven ancient …

Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers

M Lipson, EA Sawchuk, JC Thompson, J Oppenheimer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple lines of genetic and archaeological evidence suggest that there were major
demographic changes in the terminal Late Pleistocene epoch and early Holocene epoch of …

Late Pleistocene climate drivers of early human migration

A Timmermann, T Friedrich - nature, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

The great human expansion

BM Henn, LL Cavalli-Sforza… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Genetic and paleoanthropological evidence is in accord that today's human population is
the result of a great demic (demographic and geographic) expansion that began …

Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

I Comas, M Coscolla, T Luo, S Borrell, KE Holt… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Tuberculosis caused 20% of all human deaths in the Western world between the
seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and remains a cause of high mortality in develo** …

Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history

M Lipson, I Ribot, S Mallick, N Rohland, I Olalde… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Our knowledge of ancient human population structure in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly
prior to the advent of food production, remains limited. Here we report genome-wide DNA …

[КНИГА][B] Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease

M Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …