Insights into human history from the first decade of ancient human genomics

Y Liu, X Mao, J Krause, Q Fu - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recent advancements in DNA sequencing technologies and laboratory preparation
protocols have rapidly expanded the scope of ancient DNA research over the past decade …

Going local with ancient DNA: A review of human histories from regional perspectives

MC Ávila-Arcos, M Raghavan, C Schlebusch - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ancient DNA (aDNA) has added a wealth of information about our species' history, including
insights on genetic origins, migrations and gene flow, genetic admixture, and health and …

[HTML][HTML] The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics

R Maier, P Flegontov, O Flegontova, U Işıldak… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

P Heggarty, C Anderson, M Scarborough, B King… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic
analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a …

[HTML][HTML] Human population history at the crossroads of East and Southeast Asia since 11,000 years ago

T Wang, W Wang, G Xie, Z Li, X Fan, Q Yang, X Wu… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Past human genetic diversity and migration between southern China and Southeast Asia
have not been well characterized, in part due to poor preservation of ancient DNA in hot and …

[PDF][PDF] Whole-genome resequencing of worldwide wild and domestic sheep elucidates genetic diversity, introgression, and agronomically important loci

FH Lv, YH Cao, GJ Liu, LY Luo, R Lu… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Domestic sheep and their wild relatives harbor substantial genetic variants that can form the
backbone of molecular breeding, but their genome landscapes remain understudied. Here …

Bronze and Iron Age population movements underlie Xinjiang population history

V Kumar, W Wang, J Zhang, Y Wang, Q Ruan, J Yu… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Xinjiang region in northwest China is a historically important geographical passage
between East and West Eurasia. By sequencing 201 ancient genomes from 39 …

A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

AW Wohns, Y Wong, B Jeffery, A Akbari, S Mallick… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionized
our understanding of human history and evolution. However, the problem of how best to …