The Hybrid Origin of “Modern” Humans

Neanderthals had outsize effect on human biology

(2015) Ewen Callaway   NATURE

An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

(2015) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

Possible Signatures of Hominin Hybridization from the Early Holocene of Southwest China

(2015) Darren Curnoe et al.   Scientific Reports

Advantageous diversity maintained by balancing selection in humans

(2014) Felix M Key et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Preserving immune diversity through ancient inheritance and admixture

(2014) Laure Ségurel et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

Coalescence and fragmentation in the late Pleistocene archaeology of southernmost Africa

(2014) Alex Mackay et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Further evidence for phenotypic signatures of hybridization in descendant baboon populations

(2014) Rebecca R. Ackermann et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving

(2014) Josephine C. A. Joordens et al.   NATURE

The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

(2014) Tom Higham et al.   NATURE

Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

(2014) Emilia Huerta-Sánchez 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

Genomics and the origin of species

(2014) Ole Seehausen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The impact of whole-genome sequencing on the reconstruction of human population history

(2014) Krishna R. Veeramah et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar

(2014) Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal 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

Evolution of early Homo: An integrated biological perspective

(2014) S. C. Anton et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Neanderthal Introgression at Chromosome 3p21.31 Was Under Positive Natural Selection in East Asians

(2013) Qiliang Ding et al.   MOLECULAR 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

Possible Interbreeding in Late Italian Neanderthals? New Data from the Mezzena Jaw (Monti Lessini, Verona, Italy)

(2013) Silvana Condemi et al.   PLoS One

An Enlarged Parietal Foramen in the Late Archaic Xujiayao 11 Neurocranium from Northern China, and Rare Anomalies among Pleistocene Homo

(2013) Xiu-Jie Wu et al.   PLoS One

An Ochered Fossil Marine Shell From the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy

(2013) Marco Peresani et al.   PLoS One

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

Microliths in the Middle and Later Stone Age of eastern Africa: New data from Porc-Epic and Goda Buticha cave sites, Ethiopia

(2013) Alice Leplongeon   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

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

(2012) Joseph Lachance et al.   CELL

Widespread yet heterogeneous genomic divergence

(2012) PATRIK NOSIL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa

(2012) P. Villa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Radiocarbon dates from the Grotte du Renne and Saint-Cesaire support a Neandertal origin for the Chatelperronian

(2012) J.-J. Hublin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

(2012) M. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

The genetic prehistory of southern Africa

(2012) Joseph K. Pickrell et al.   Nature Communications

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

Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

(2011) F. d'Errico et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky B.P., Italy

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

The Shaping of Modern Human Immune Systems by Multiregional Admixture with Archaic Humans

(2011) L. Abi-Rached et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2010) Johannes Krause et al.   NATURE

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Shells and ochre in Middle Paleolithic Qafzeh Cave, Israel: indications for modern behavior

(2009) Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Middle and later Pleistocene hominins in Africa and Southwest Asia

(2009) G. P. Rightmire   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The revolution that didn't arrive: A review of Pleistocene Sahul

(2008) Phillip J. Habgood et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Hybridization, ecological races and the nature of species: empirical evidence for the ease of speciation

(2008) J. Mallet   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES