Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

Non-coding mutations at the far end of a large gene desert surrounding the SOX9 gene
result in a human craniofacial disorder called Pierre Robin sequence (PRS). Leveraging a …

Primate genomics holds the key to understanding fundamental aspects of human evolution
and disease. However, genetic diversity and functional genomics data sets are currently …

Denisovans, a group of now extinct humans who lived in Eastern Eurasia in the Middle and
Late Pleistocene, were first identified from DNA sequences just over a decade ago. Only ten …

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) …

This article presents outcomes from a Workshop entitled “Bioarchaeology: Taking Stock and
Moving Forward,” which was held at Arizona State University (ASU) on March 6–8, 2020 …

Gene regulatory divergence is thought to play a central role in determining human-specific
traits. However, our ability to link divergent regulation to divergent phenotypes is limited …

The Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes enabled the discovery of sequences that differ
between modern and archaic humans, the majority of which are noncoding. However, our …