Anthropogenic disturbances of ecosystems are causing a loss of biodiversity at an
unprecedented rate. Species extinctions often leave ecological niches underutilized, and …

Hybridization can result in the transfer of adaptive genetic material from one species to
another, known as adaptive introgression. Bottlenecked (and hence genetically depleted) …

Steadman fills an empty niche in the offerings on how archaeology interprets past religions
with this useful textbook. The book includes case studies from around the world, from the …

I present a general and personal view of the various aspects in which Man is and should be
studied. The main problem lies in the lack of a fully accepted definitions of consciousness …

We report a genome-wide association study of facial features in> 6000 Latin Americans
based on automatic landmarking of 2D portraits and testing for association with inter …

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 …

Abstract The Nav1. 7 voltage-gated sodium channel plays a key role in nociception. Three
functional variants in the SCN9A gene (encoding M932L, V991L, and D1908G in Nav1. 7) …

Neanderthal and Denisovan hybridisation with modern humans has generated a non-
random genomic distribution of introgressed regions, the result of drift and selection …

Current methods of processing archaeological samples combined with advances in
sequencing methods lead to disclosure of a large part of H. neanderthalensis and …

Background The genomes of present-day non-Africans are composed of 1–3% of
Neandertal-derived DNA as a consequence of admixture events between Neandertals and …