We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia
(Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with …

Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated
whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we …

Variation at the FADS1/FADS2 gene cluster is functionally associated with differences in
lipid metabolism and is often hypothesized to reflect adaptation to an agricultural diet. Here …

Pathogen-imposed selection pressures have been paramount during human evolution.
Detecting such selection signatures in ancient and modern human genomes can thus help …

Summary Anatolia and the Near East have long been recognized as the epicenter of the
Neolithic expansion through archaeological evidence. Recent archaeogenetic studies on …

To shed light on the peopling of South Asia and the origins of the morphological adaptations
found there, we analyzed whole-genome sequences from 10 Andamanese individuals and …

Skin pigmentation is a classic example of a polygenic trait that has experienced directional
selection in humans. Genome-wide association studies have identified well over a hundred …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Hair color differences are among the most obvious examples of phenotypic variation in
humans. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have implicated multiple loci …

Farming was established in Central Europe by the Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK), a well-
investigated archaeological horizon, which emerged in the Carpathian Basin, in today's …