When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

JF O'Connell, J Allen, MAJ Williams… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens, AMH) began spreading across Eurasia from
Africa and adjacent Southwest Asia about 50,000–55,000 years ago (ca. 50–55 ka). Some …

Insights into human history from the first decade of ancient human genomics

Y Liu, X Mao, J Krause, Q Fu - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recent advancements in DNA sequencing technologies and laboratory preparation
protocols have rapidly expanded the scope of ancient DNA research over the past decade …

A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

A Cooper, CSM Turney, J Palmer, A Hogg, M McGlone… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Geological archives record multiple reversals of Earth's magnetic poles, but the global
impacts of these events, if any, remain unclear. Uncertain radiocarbon calibration has limited …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making

R Hill, FJ Walsh, J Davies, A Sparrow… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Co-production between scientific and Indigenous knowledge has been identified as useful
to generating adaptation pathways with Indigenous peoples, who are attached to their …

An ancestral recombination graph of human, Neanderthal, and Denisovan genomes

NK Schaefer, B Shapiro, RE Green - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Many humans carry genes from Neanderthals, a legacy of past admixture. Existing methods
detect this archaic hominin ancestry within human genomes using patterns of linkage …

[HTML][HTML] Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul

CJA Bradshaw, K Norman, S Ulm, AN Williams… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The peopling of Sahul (the combined continent of Australia and New Guinea) represents the
earliest continental migration and settlement event of solely anatomically modern humans …

[HTML][HTML] Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul

S Kealy, J Louys, S O'Connor - Journal of human evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
Archaeological records from Australia provide the earliest, indirect evidence for maritime
crossings by early modern humans, as the islands to the north-west of the continent …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul

SA Crabtree, DA White, CJA Bradshaw, F Saltré… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Archaeological data and demographic modelling suggest that the peopling of Sahul
required substantial populations, occurred rapidly within a few thousand years and …

[HTML][HTML] Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration

SA Hocknull, R Lewis, LJ Arnold, T Pietsch… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Explanations for the Upper Pleistocene extinction of megafauna from Sahul
(Australia and New Guinea) remain unresolved. Extinction hypotheses have advanced …

Contemporary demographic reconstruction methods are robust to genome assembly quality: a case study in Tasmanian devils

AH Patton, MJ Margres, AR Stahlke… - Molecular biology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructing species' demographic histories is a central focus of molecular ecology and
evolution. Recently, an expanding suite of methods leveraging either the sequentially …