[HTML][HTML] Late Quaternary sea-level changes and early human societies in the central and eastern Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary review

J Benjamin, A Rovere, A Fontana, S Furlani… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

African genetic diversity: implications for human demographic history, modern human origins, and complex disease mapping

MC Campbell, SA Tishkoff - Annu. Rev. Genomics Hum. Genet., 2008 - annualreviews.org
Comparative studies of ethnically diverse human populations, particularly in Africa, are
important for reconstructing human evolutionary history and for understanding the genetic …

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

I Olalde, S Mallick, N Patterson, N Rohland… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the
largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect …

The genetic history of ice age Europe

Q Fu, C Posth, M Hajdinjak, M Petr, S Mallick… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Modern humans arrived in Europe~ 45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic
composition before the start of farming~ 8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide …

Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes suggest a single major dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe

C Posth, G Renaud, A Mittnik, DG Drucker, H Rougier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models …

Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation

M Van Oven, M Kayser - Human mutation, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Human mitochondrial DNA is widely used as tool in many fields including evolutionary
anthropology and population history, medical genetics, genetic genealogy, and forensic …

The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands

JG Serrano, AC Ordóñez, J Santana… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The indigenous population of the Canary Islands, which colonized the archipelago around
the 3rd century CE, provides both a window into the past of North Africa and a unique model …

Pleistocene North African genomes link near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

M Van de Loosdrecht, A Bouzouggar, L Humphrey… - Science, 2018 - science.org
North Africa is a key region for understanding human history, but the genetic history of its
people is largely unknown. We present genomic data from seven 15,000-year-old modern …

Correcting for purifying selection: an improved human mitochondrial molecular clock

P Soares, L Ermini, N Thomson, M Mormina… - The American Journal of …, 2009 - cell.com
There is currently no calibration available for the whole human mtDNA genome,
incorporating both coding and control regions. Furthermore, as several authors have pointed …

Age of the Association between Helicobacter pylori and Man

Y Moodley, B Linz, RP Bond, M Nieuwoudt… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
When modern humans left Africa ca. 60,000 years ago (60 kya), they were already infected
with Helicobacter pylori, and these bacteria have subsequently diversified in parallel with …