As populations diverge, genetic differences accumulate across the genome. Spurred by
rapid developments in sequencing technology, genome-wide population surveys of natural …

Population geneticists have long sought to understand the contribution of natural selection
to molecular evolution. A variety of approaches have been proposed that use population …

Humans possess an extraordinary capacity for cultural production, from the arts and
language to science and technology. How did the human mind—and the uniquely human …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …

The sustainability of malaria control in Africa is threatened by the rise of insecticide
resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the disease 1. To gain a deeper …

Identifying genomic regions with unusually high local haplotype homozygosity represents a
powerful strategy to characterize candidate genes responding to natural or artificial positive …

Bantu languages are spoken by about 310 million Africans, yet the genetic history of Bantu-
speaking populations remains largely unexplored. We generated genomic data for 1318 …

Abstract Background The history of African indigenous cattle and their adaptation to
environmental and human selection pressure is at the root of their remarkable diversity …

Although considerable progress has been made in understanding the genetic basis of
morphologic traits (for example, body size and coat color) in dogs and wolves, the genetic …

The degree to which adaptation in recent human evolution shapes genetic variation remains
controversial. This is in part due to the limited evidence in humans for classic “hard selective …