Many of the statistical models that could provide an accurate, interesting, and testable
explanation for the structure of a data set turn out to have intractable likelihood functions …

The range of technological elements that marks the Middle Stone Age originated more than
300,000 years ago and formed the basic tool kit for an extended period of time. No spatial …

We introduce a flexible and robust simulation-based framework to infer demographic
parameters from the site frequency spectrum (SFS) computed on large genomic datasets …

Purpose This paper aims to formalize long-term trajectories of human civilization as a
scientific and ethical field of study. The long-term trajectory of human civilization can be …

In the last three decades, genetic studies have played an increasingly important role in
exploring human history. They have helped to conclusively establish that anatomically …

Abstract Anatomically Modern Humans are the sole survivor of a group of hominins that
inhabited our planet during the last ice age and that included, among others, Homo …

Inferring a realistic demographic model from genetic data is an important challenge to gain
insights into the historical events during the speciation process and to detect molecular …

The emergence of more refined chronologies for climate change and archaeology in
prehistoric Africa, and for the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), now make it …

The majority of sub-Saharan Africans today speak a number of closely related languages
collectively referred to as 'Bantu'languages. The current distribution of Bantu-speaking …

Accumulating genomic, fossil and archaeological data from Africa have led to a renewed
interest in models of modern human origins. However, such discussions are often discipline …