Origins of modern human ancestry

A Bergström, C Stringer, M Hajdinjak, EML Scerri… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
New finds in the palaeoanthropological and genomic records have changed our view of the
origins of modern human ancestry. Here we review our current understanding of how the …

Runs of homozygosity: windows into population history and trait architecture

FC Ceballos, PK Joshi, DW Clark, M Ramsay… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Long runs of homozygosity (ROH) arise when identical haplotypes are inherited from each
parent and thus a long tract of genotypes is homozygous. Cousin marriage or inbreeding …

Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France

L Slimak, C Zanolli, T Higham, M Frouin… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Determining the extent of overlap between modern humans and other hominins in Eurasia,
such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, is fundamental to understanding the nature of their …

A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals

H Zeberg, S Pääbo - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
It was recently shown that the major genetic risk factor associated with becoming severely ill
with COVID-19 when infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

C Clarkson, Z Jacobs, B Marwick, R Fullagar, L Wallis… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The time of arrival of people in Australia is an unresolved question. It is relevant to debates
about when modern humans first dispersed out of Africa and when their descendants …

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

V Slon, F Mafessoni, B Vernot, C De Filippo, S Grote… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each
other more than 390,000 years ago,. Here we present the genome of 'Denisova 11', a bone …

[图书][B] Who we are and how we got here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

D Reich - 2018 - books.google.com
The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

K Prüfer, C De Filippo, S Grote, F Mafessoni, P Korlević… - Science, 2017 - science.org
To date, the only Neandertal genome that has been sequenced to high quality is from an
individual found in Southern Siberia. We sequenced the genome of a female Neandertal …

Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

R Nielsen, JM Akey, M Jakobsson, JK Pritchard… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in the sequencing and the analysis of the genomes of both modern and ancient
peoples have facilitated a number of breakthroughs in our understanding of human …

Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …