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 …

Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

As the ancestral homeland of our species, Africa contains elevated levels of genetic diversity
and substantial population structure. Importantly, African genomes are heterogeneous: They …

We conduct high coverage (> 30×) whole-genome sequencing of 180 individuals from 12
indigenous African populations. We identify millions of unreported variants, many predicted …

In temperate and subtropical regions, ancient proteins are reported to survive up to about 2
million years, far beyond the known limits of ancient DNA preservation in the same areas …

Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty
surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent. Progress is …

f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

Our understanding of human population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting
“admixture graphs” to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

Birch tar production by Neanderthals—used for hafting tools—has been interpreted as one
of the earliest manifestations of modern cultural behavior. This is because birch tar …

Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of
Western African descent who brought agriculture to the Luangwa valley in eastern Zambia …