Origins of modern human ancestry

Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals

(2020) Lu Chen et al.   CELL

Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history

(2020) Mark Lipson et al.   NATURE

Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations

(2020) Arun Durvasula et al.   Science Advances

Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin

(2020) Alan R. Rogers et al.   Science Advances

The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes

(2020) Laurits Skov et al.   NATURE

The dental proteome of Homo antecessor

(2020) Frido Welker et al.   NATURE

Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes

(2020) Anders Bergström et al.   SCIENCE

Tracking human population structure through time from whole genome sequences

(2020) Ke Wang et al.   PLoS Genetics

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

(2020) Fabrizio Mafessoni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mapping gene flow between ancient hominins through demography-aware inference of the ancestral recombination graph

(2020) Melissa J. Hubisz et al.   PLoS Genetics

Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression

(2019) Martin Petr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New permanent teeth from Gran Dolina-TD6 (Sierra de Atapuerca). The bearing of Homo antecessor on the evolutionary scenario of Early and Middle Pleistocene Europe

(2019) María Martinón-Torres et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Multiple Deeply Divergent Denisovan Ancestries in Papuans

(2019) Guy S. Jacobs et al.   CELL

A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

(2019) Fahu Chen et al.   NATURE

Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation

(2019) Xiu-Jie Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolutionary history of the human face

(2019) Rodrigo S. Lacruz et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A Rare Deep-Rooting D0 African Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup and Its Implications for the Expansion of Modern Humans out of Africa

(2019) Marc Haber et al.   GENETICS

Efficiently Inferring the Demographic History of Many Populations With Allele Count Data

(2019) Jack Kamm et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

(2019) Katerina Harvati et al.   NATURE

The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

(2019) Martin Sikora et al.   NATURE

Models of archaic admixture and recent history from two-locus statistics

(2019) Aaron P. Ragsdale et al.   PLoS Genetics

Aspects of human physical and behavioural evolution during the last 1 million years

(2019) Julia Galway‐Witham et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

A method for genome-wide genealogy estimation for thousands of samples

(2019) Leo Speidel et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Beyond multiregional and simple out-of-Africa models of human evolution

(2019) Eleanor M. L. Scerri et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Deciphering African late middle Pleistocene hominin diversity and the origin of our species

(2019) Aurélien Mounier et al.   Nature Communications

Identification of African-Specific Admixture between Modern and Archaic Humans

(2019) Jeffrey D. Wall et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia

(2019)   NATURE

Ancient Human Genomics: The First Decade

(2018) Pontus Skoglund et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Analysis of Human Sequence Data Reveals Two Pulses of Archaic Denisovan Admixture

(2018) Sharon R. Browning et al.   CELL

A partial Homo pelvis from the Early Pleistocene of Eritrea

(2018) Ashley S. Hammond et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

No evidence for unknown archaic ancestry in South Asia

(2018) Pontus Skoglund et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Additional evidence for early modern human morphological diversity in Southeast Asia at Tam Pa Ling, Laos

(2018) Laura Shackelford et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes

(2018) Molly Schumer et al.   SCIENCE

Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

(2018) Marieke van de Loosdrecht et al.   SCIENCE

The earliest modern humans outside Africa

(2018) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   SCIENCE

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

(2018) Eleanor M.L. Scerri et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The demographic history and mutational load of African hunter-gatherers and farmers

(2018) Marie Lopez et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

(2018) Huw S. Groucutt et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2018) Viviane Slon et al.   NATURE

Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals

(2018) Mateja Hajdinjak et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary history and adaptation of a human pygmy population of Flores Island, Indonesia

(2018) Serena Tucci et al.   SCIENCE

Clarifying distinct models of modern human origins in Africa

(2018) Brenna M Henn et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Multiple episodes of interbreeding between Neanderthal and modern humans

(2018) Fernando A. Villanea et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

(2017) Chris Clarkson et al.   NATURE

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago

(2017) K. E. Westaway et al.   NATURE

The age of human remains and associated fauna from Zhiren Cave in Guangxi, southern China

(2017) Yanjun Cai et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago

(2017) Carina M. Schlebusch et al.   SCIENCE

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments

(2017) Viviane Slon et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

(2017) Martin Sikora et al.   SCIENCE

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

(2017) Kay Prüfer et al.   SCIENCE

Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

(2017) Cosimo Posth et al.   Nature Communications

The Combined Landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans

(2016) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

(2016) Cosimo Posth et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Modeling Human Population Separation History Using Physically Phased Genomes

(2016) Shiya Song et al.   GENETICS

The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression

(2016) Kelley Harris et al.   GENETICS

Model-based analyses of whole-genome data reveal a complex evolutionary history involving archaic introgression in Central African Pygmies

(2016) PingHsun Hsieh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Late Stone Age human remains from Ishango (Democratic Republic of Congo): New insights on Late Pleistocene modern human diversity in Africa

(2016) I. Crevecoeur et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins

(2016) Matthias Meyer et al.   NATURE

A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

(2016) Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas et al.   NATURE

Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

(2016) Pontus Skoglund et al.   NATURE

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals

(2016) Martin Kuhlwilm et al.   NATURE

Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

(2016) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

(2016) Swapan Mallick et al.   NATURE

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

(2016) Luca Pagani et al.   NATURE

The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

(2016) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

(2016) G David Poznik et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genomic analysis of Andamanese provides insights into ancient human migration into Asia and adaptation

(2016) Mayukh Mondal et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Morphological variation inHomo erectusand the origins of developmental plasticity

(2016) Susan C. Antón et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origin and evolution ofHomo sapiens

(2016) Chris Stringer   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A genetic method for dating ancient genomes provides a direct estimate of human generation interval in the last 45,000 years

(2016) Priya Moorjani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ∼250–70,000 years ago

(2016) Paul S. Breeze et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals

(2016) B. Vernot et al.   SCIENCE

Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent

(2016) Farnaz Broushaki et al.   SCIENCE

The Strength of Selection against Neanderthal Introgression

(2016) Ivan Juric et al.   PLoS Genetics

Modeling Human Population Separation History Using Physically Phased Genomes

(2016) Shiya Song et al.   GENETICS

The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression

(2016) Kelley Harris et al.   GENETICS

Complex History of Admixture between Modern Humans and Neandertals

(2015) Benjamin Vernot et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Selection and Reduced Population Size Cannot Explain Higher Amounts of Neandertal Ancestry in East Asian than in European Human Populations

(2015) Bernard Y. Kim et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

(2015) Monika Karmin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Denisovan Ancestry in East Eurasian and Native American Populations

(2015) Pengfei Qin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

(2015) Wolfgang Haak et al.   NATURE

An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

(2015) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

(2015) Wu Liu et al.   NATURE

Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa

(2015) M. Gallego Llorente et al.   SCIENCE

Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone

(2015) Ron Pinhasi et al.   PLoS One

Luminescence dating and palaeomagnetic age constraint on hominins from Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain

(2014) Lee J. Arnold et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Iwo Eleru's place among Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene populations of North and East Africa

(2014) Christopher M. Stojanowski   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

(2014) Iosif Lazaridis et al.   NATURE

The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

(2014) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   NATURE

Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

(2014) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

Inferring human population size and separation history from multiple genome sequences

(2014) Stephan Schiffels et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genomic and cranial phenotype data support multiple modern human dispersals from Africa and a southern route into Asia

(2014) H. Reyes-Centeno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa

(2014) J. K. Pickrell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes

(2014) B. Vernot et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

(2014) A. Seguin-Orlando et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers

(2014) P. Skoglund et al.   SCIENCE

Toward a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA

(2014) Joseph K. Pickrell et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

An African American Paternal Lineage Adds an Extremely Ancient Root to the Human Y Chromosome Phylogenetic Tree

(2013) Fernando L. Mendez et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Endostructural characterization of the H. heidelbergensis dental remains from the early Middle Pleistocene site of Tighenif, Algeria

(2013) Clément Zanolli et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

(2013) Qiaomei Fu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Higher Levels of Neanderthal Ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans

(2013) Jeffrey D. Wall et al.   GENETICS

Apparent Variation in Neanderthal Admixture among African Populations is Consistent with Gene Flow from Non-African Populations

(2013) Shuoguo Wang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A mitochondrial genome sequence of a hominin from Sima de los Huesos

(2013) Matthias Meyer et al.   NATURE

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

(2013) Kay Prüfer et al.   NATURE

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

(2013) Q. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers

(2012) Joseph Lachance et al.   CELL

Ancient Structure in Africa Unlikely to Explain Neanderthal and Non-African Genetic Similarity

(2012) M. A. Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

North African Populations Carry the Signature of Admixture with Neandertals

(2012) Federico Sánchez-Quinto et al.   PLoS One

Genomic Variation in Seven Khoe-San Groups Reveals Adaptation and Complex African History

(2012) C. M. Schlebusch et al.   SCIENCE

Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers and Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

(2012) P. Skoglund et al.   SCIENCE

A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

(2012) M. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans

(2012) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania

(2011) David Reich et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

An Early Divergence of KhoeSan Ancestors from Those of Other Modern Humans Is Supported by an ABC-Based Analysis of Autosomal Resequencing Data

(2011) Krishna R. Veeramah et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe

(2011) Tom Higham et al.   NATURE

Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences

(2011) Heng Li et al.   NATURE

Bayesian inference of ancient human demography from individual genome sequences

(2011) Ilan Gronau et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology

(2011) Katerina Harvati et al.   PLoS One

Archaic human ancestry in East Asia

(2011) P. Skoglund et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Earliest human occupations at Dmanisi (Georgian Caucasus) dated to 1.85-1.78 Ma

(2011) R. Ferring et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Strong reproductive isolation between humans and Neanderthals inferred from observed patterns of introgression

(2011) M. Currat et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa

(2011) M. F. Hammer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans

(2011) B. M. Henn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

(2011) M. Rasmussen et al.   SCIENCE

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia

(2010) Johannes Krause et al.   NATURE

Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

(2010) David Reich et al.   NATURE

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Origins and Genetic Diversity of Pygmy Hunter-Gatherers from Western Central Africa

(2009) Paul Verdu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The origin of Neandertals

(2009) J. J. Hublin   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Explaining worldwide patterns of human genetic variation using a coalescent-based serial founder model of migration outward from Africa

(2009) M. DeGiorgio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans

(2009) S. A. Tishkoff et al.   SCIENCE

Inferring the Demographic History of African Farmers and Pygmy Hunter–Gatherers Using a Multilocus Resequencing Data Set

(2009) Etienne Patin et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Dawn of Human Matrilineal Diversity

(2008) Doron M. Behar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

A Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequence Determined by High-Throughput Sequencing

(2008) Richard E. Green et al.   CELL

Genotype, haplotype and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations

(2008) Mattias Jakobsson et al.   NATURE

Worldwide Human Relationships Inferred from Genome-Wide Patterns of Variation

(2008) J. Z. Li et al.   SCIENCE