The ancient biological'arms race'between microbial pathogens and humans has shaped
genetic variation in modern populations, and this has important implications for the growing …

Humans have transformed Europe's landscapes since the establishment of the first
agricultural societies in the mid-Holocene. The most important anthropogenic alteration of …

We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild
accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape …

Despite the spread and adoption of social network concepts outside of the academy and the
rising use of social network analysis across a number of disciplines, there is no general …

On the basis of fossil and archaeological data it has been hypothesized that the exodus of
Homo sapiens out of Africa and into Eurasia between~ 50–120 thousand years ago …

The origin and evolution of the domestic dog remains a controversial question for the
scientific community, with basic aspects such as the place and date of origin, and the …

Niche construction is the process by which organisms construct important components of
their local environment in ways that introduce novel selection pressures. Lactase …

In Europe, the Neolithic transition (8,000–4,000 bc) from hunting and gathering to
agricultural communities was one of the most important demographic events since the initial …

Lactase persistence (LP) is common among people of European ancestry, but with the
exception of some African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian groups, is rare or absent …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …