Beringia and the global dispersal of modern humans

JF Hoffecker, SA Elias, DH O'Rourke… - … : Issues, news, and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa
dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native …

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 …

Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

[HTML][HTML] Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

M Hajdinjak, F Mafessoni, L Skov, B Vernot, A Hübner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but the extent
of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago 6, and …

Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

JJ Hublin, N Sirakov, V Aldeias, S Bailey, E Bard… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe witnessed the replacement
and partial absorption of local Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens populations of …

An overview of Alpine and Mediterranean palaeogeography, terrestrial ecosystems and climate history during MIS 3 with focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic …

F Badino, R Pini, C Ravazzi, D Margaritora… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the current state of knowledge about the millennial scale climate
variability characterizing Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) in S-Europe and the Mediterranean …

The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

W Liu, M Martinón-Torres, Y Cai, S Xing, H Tong, S Pei… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The hominin record from southern Asia for the early Late Pleistocene epoch is scarce. Well-
dated and well-preserved fossils older than∼ 45,000 years that can be unequivocally …

Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes suggest a single major dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe

C Posth, G Renaud, A Mittnik, DG Drucker, H Rougier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models …

Ancient DNA and multimethod dating confirm the late arrival of anatomically modern humans in southern China

X Sun, S Wen, C Lu, B Zhou… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The expansion of anatomically modern humans (AMHs) from Africa around 65,000 to 45,000
y ago (ca. 65 to 45 ka) led to the establishment of present-day non-African populations …

The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia

JA Haws, MM Benedetti, S Talamo… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Documenting the first appearance of modern humans in a given region is key to
understanding the dispersal process and the replacement or assimilation of indigenous …