On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

CJ Bae, K Douka, MD Petraglia - science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages

G Hewitt - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
Global climate has fluctuated greatly during the past three million years, leading to the
recent major ice ages. An inescapable consequence for most living organisms is great …

[图书][B] Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

D Reich - 2018 - books.google.com
The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome

RE Green, J Krause, AW Briggs, T Maricic, U Stenzel… - science, 2010 - science.org
Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of
Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft …

Testing for ancient admixture between closely related populations

EY Durand, N Patterson, D Reich… - Molecular biology and …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
One enduring question in evolutionary biology is the extent of archaic admixture in the
genomes of present-day populations. In this paper, we present a test for ancient admixture …

[图书][B] Phylogeography: the history and formation of species

JC Avise - 2000 - books.google.com
Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution

M Pagel - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Phylogenetic trees describe the pattern of descent amongst a group of species. With the
rapid accumulation of DNA sequence data, more and more phylogenies are being …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of Neanderthal introgression to modern human traits

PF Reilly, A Tjahjadi, SL Miller, JM Akey, S Tucci - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, lived in western Eurasia from 400,000 years ago
until they went extinct around 40,000 years ago. DNA retrieved from ancient specimens …

[图书][B] The meme machine

SJ Blackmore - 2000 - books.google.com
What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea,
behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories …

Targeted capture in evolutionary and ecological genomics

MR Jones, JM Good - Molecular ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid expansion of next‐generation sequencing has yielded a powerful array of tools to
address fundamental biological questions at a scale that was inconceivable just a few years …