Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

GD Poznik, Y Xue, FL Mendez, TF Willems, A Massaia… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We report the sequences of 1,244 human Y chromosomes randomly ascertained from 26
worldwide populations by the 1000 Genomes Project. We discovered more than 65,000 …

Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

HS Groucutt, MD Petraglia, G Bailey… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Current fossil, genetic, and archeological data indicate that Homo sapiens originated in
Africa in the late Middle Pleistocene. By the end of the Late Pleistocene, our species was …

Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

M Raghavan, P Skoglund, KE Graf, M Metspalu… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to
be genetically most closely related to east Asians,,, there is no consensus with regard to …

[图书][B] Growth: from microorganisms to megacities

V Smil - 2019 - books.google.com
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

[HTML][HTML] Morphometric, behavioral, and genomic evidence for a new orangutan species

A Nater, MP Mattle-Greminger, A Nurcahyo, MG Nowak… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Six extant species of non-human great apes are currently recognized: Sumatran and
Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, and chimpanzees and bonobos [1] …

Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

I Comas, M Coscolla, T Luo, S Borrell, KE Holt… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Tuberculosis caused 20% of all human deaths in the Western world between the
seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and remains a cause of high mortality in developing …

Mountain gorilla genomes reveal the impact of long-term population decline and inbreeding

Y Xue, J Prado-Martinez, PH Sudmant, V Narasimhan… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Mountain gorillas are an endangered great ape subspecies and a prominent focus for
conservation, yet we know little about their genomic diversity and evolutionary past. We …

Human Y-chromosome variation in the genome-sequencing era

MA Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
The properties of the human Y chromosome–namely, male specificity, haploidy and escape
from crossing over—make it an unusual component of the genome, and have led to its …

[图书][B] Human evolutionary genetics: origins, peoples and disease

M Jobling, C Tyler-Smith - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

Genetic and archaeological perspectives on the initial modern human colonization of southern Asia

P Mellars, KC Gori, M Carr… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
It has been argued recently that the initial dispersal of anatomically modern humans from
Africa to southern Asia occurred before the volcanic “supereruption” of the Mount Toba …