Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia

J Blöcher, M Brami, IS Feinauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus

D Bolognini, A Halgren, RN Lou, A Raveane, JL Rocha… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The adoption of agriculture triggered a rapid shift towards starch-rich diets in human
populations. Amylase genes facilitate starch digestion, and increased amylase copy number …

High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry

K Wang, K Prüfer, B Krause-Kyora, A Childebayeva… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The Tyrolean Iceman is known as one of the oldest human glacier mummies,
directly dated to 3350–3120 calibrated BCE. A previously published low-coverage genome …

Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene

M Stoneking, L Arias, D Liu, S Oliveira… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation

F Yilmaz, C Karageorgiou, K Kim, P Pajic, K Scheer… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Previous studies suggested that the copy number of the human salivary amylase gene,
AMY1, correlates with starch-rich diets. However, evolutionary analyses are hampered by …

The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal

L Vallini, C Zampieri, MJ Shoaee, E Bortolini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A combination of evidence, based on genetic, fossil and archaeological findings, indicates
that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa between~ 70-60 thousand years ago (kya) …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

D Koptekin, E Yüncü, R Rodríguez-Varela, NE Altınışık… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition

NE Altınışık, DD Kazancı, A Aydoğan, HC Gemici… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Upper Mesopotamia played a key role in the Neolithic Transition in Southwest Asia through
marked innovations in symbolism, technology, and diet. We present 13 ancient genomes (c …

Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe

P Gelabert, P Bickle, D Hofmann… - Nature human …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Neolithic communities were the first to spread
farming across large parts of Europe. We report genome-wide data for 250 individuals: 178 …

Recent speciation associated with range expansion and a shift to self-fertilization in North American Arabidopsis

Y Willi, K Lucek, O Bachmann, N Walden - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The main processes classically evoked for promoting reproductive isolation and speciation
are geographic separation reducing gene flow among populations, divergent selection, and …