Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

A “Copernican” Reassessment of the Human Mitochondrial DNA Tree from its Root

(2012) Doron M. Behar et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

The biogeography of mitochondrial and nuclear discordance in animals

(2012) DAVID P. L. TOEWS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

(2012) Aylwyn Scally et al.   NATURE

De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism

(2012) Stephan J. Sanders et al.   NATURE

Sporadic autism exomes reveal a highly interconnected protein network of de novo mutations

(2012) Brian J. O’Roak et al.   NATURE

An Abundance of Rare Functional Variants in 202 Drug Target Genes Sequenced in 14,002 People

(2012) M. R. Nelson et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Humid periods in southern Arabia: Windows of opportunity for modern human dispersal

(2011) T.M. Rosenberg et al.   GEOLOGY

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

Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution

(2011) SIMON Y. W. HO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe

(2011) Tom Higham et al.   NATURE

Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes

(2011) Devin P. Locke 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 Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia

(2011) Jeffrey I. Rose et al.   PLoS One

Demographic history and rare allele sharing among human populations

(2011) S. Gravel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early Human Evolution in the Western Palaearctic: Ecological Scenarios

(2011) José S. Carrión et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Did Modern Humans Travel Out of Africa Via Arabia?

(2011) A. Lawler   SCIENCE

The Southern Route "Out of Africa": Evidence for an Early Expansion of Modern Humans into Arabia

(2011) S. J. Armitage et al.   SCIENCE

An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia

(2011) M. Rasmussen et al.   SCIENCE

Direct Measure of the De Novo Mutation Rate in Autism and Schizophrenia Cohorts

(2010) Philip Awadalla et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Using genetic evidence to evaluate four palaeoanthropological hypotheses for the timing of Neanderthal and modern human origins

(2010) Phillip Endicott et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Bayesian Inference of the Demographic History of Chimpanzees

(2010) D. Wegmann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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 map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

(2010) Richard M. Durbin et al.   NATURE

Rate, molecular spectrum, and consequences of human mutation

(2010) M. Lynch   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analysis of Genetic Inheritance in a Family Quartet by Whole-Genome Sequencing

(2010) J. C. Roach et al.   SCIENCE

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species

(2010) Robert Lanfear et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock

(2009) Pedro Soares et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

LEARNING ABOUT MODES OF SPECIATION BY COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES

(2009) Céline Becquet et al.   EVOLUTION

Is Homo heidelbergensis a distinct species? New insight on the Mauer mandible

(2009) Aurélien Mounier et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

How Robust Are "Isolation with Migration" Analyses to Violations of the IM Model? A Simulation Study

(2009) J. L. Strasburg et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

(2009) I. S. Castaneda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution

(2009) Phillip Endicott et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A Bayesian Evaluation of Human Mitochondrial Substitution Rates

(2008) Phillip Endicott et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN 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

From the Bay of Naples to the River Don: the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption and the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Eastern Europe

(2008) John F. Hoffecker et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

A critique of the chronometric evidence for hominid fossils: I. Africa and the Near East 500–50ka

(2008) Andrew R. Millard   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

A humid corridor across the Sahara for the migration of early modern humans out of Africa 120,000 years ago

(2008) A. H. Osborne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Generation time and effective population size in Polar Eskimos

(2008) S. Matsumura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Human-macaque comparisons illuminate variation in neutral substitution rates

(2008) Svitlana Tyekucheva et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY