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 …

During the economic transition from foraging to farming, the signal of a major demographic
shift can be observed in cemetery data of world archaeological sequences. This signal is …

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HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL …

Abstract The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural
changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the …

We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms …

Ancient DNA studies have established that Neolithic European populations were descended
from Anatolian migrants,,,,,,, who received a limited amount of admixture from resident …

We sequenced the genomes of a∼ 7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight∼ 8,000-
year-old hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and
later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes …

Population mixture is an important process in biology. We present a suite of methods for
learning about population mixtures, implemented in a software package called …