More than a decade of genetic research on the Denisovans

S Peyrégne, V Slon, J Kelso - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Denisovans, a group of now extinct humans who lived in Eastern Eurasia in the Middle and
Late Pleistocene, were first identified from DNA sequences just over a decade ago. Only ten …

The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

X Mao, H Zhang, S Qiao, Y Liu, F Chang, P Xie… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Northern East Asia was inhabited by modern humans as early as 40 thousand
years ago (ka), as demonstrated by the Tianyuan individual. Using genome-wide data …

Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere

JF Hoffecker, SA Elias, GR Scott… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Did Beringian environments represent an ecological barrier to humans until less than 15
000 years ago or was access to the Americas controlled by the spatial–temporal distribution …

The history and evolution of the Denisovan-EPAS1 haplotype in Tibetans

X Zhang, KE Witt, MM Bañuelos, A Ko… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Recent studies suggest that admixture with archaic hominins played an important role in
facilitating biological adaptations to new environments. For example, interbreeding with …

[HTML][HTML] Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

M Larena, J McKenna, F Sanchez-Quinto… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans.
Here, we report an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and …

Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago

FG Wang, SX Yang, JY Ge, A Ollé, KL Zhao, JP Yue… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Homo sapiens was present in northern Asia by around 40,000 years ago, having replaced
archaic populations across Eurasia after episodes of earlier population expansions and …

Ancient genomics reveals tripartite origins of Japanese populations

NP Cooke, V Mattiangeli, LM Cassidy, K Okazaki… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Prehistoric Japan underwent rapid transformations in the past 3000 years, first from foraging
to wet rice farming and then to state formation. A long-standing hypothesis posits that …

The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Central and East Asia: blade technology, cultural transmission, and implications for human dispersals

N Zwyns - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2021 - Springer
Archaeological assemblages labeled as Initial Upper Paleolithic are often seen as possible
evidence for dispersals of Homo sapiens populations in Eurasia, ca. 45,000 years ago …