The transition from the Middle Paleolithic (MP) to the Upper Paleolithic (UP), circa 40kya, is
viewed as a major turning point in human evolution, in terms of the material culture …

The southern Levant is a key region for studying vegetation developments in relation to
climate dynamics and hominin migration processes in the past due to the sensitivity of the …

We learn about population history and underlying evolutionary biology through patterns of
genetic polymorphism. Many approaches to reconstruct evolutionary histories focus on a …

Adaptive introgression (AI) facilitates local adaptation in a wide range of species. Many state-
of-the-art methods detect AI with ad-hoc approaches that identify summary statistic outliers …

Recent fossil and genetic data poses new questions about the degree of variability of the
Late Pleistocene fossils from China and the possible interaction of modern humans with …

Neanderthals are our one of our closest evolutionary cousins, but while they evolved in
Eurasia, we (anatomically modern humans, AMH) originated in Africa. This contrasting …

Never before have we had the luxury of choosing a continent, picking a large phylogenetic
group of animals, and obtaining genomic data for its every species. Here, we sequence all …

Neandertals disappeared from the fossil record around 40,000 bp, after a demographic
history of small and isolated groups with high but variable levels of inbreeding, and …

Human language is unique among all forms of animal communication. It is unlikely that any
other species, including our close genetic cousins the Neanderthals, ever had language …

Motivation The study of ancient genomes can elucidate the evolutionary past. However,
analyses are complicated by base-modifications in ancient DNA molecules that result in …