Recent studies have identified Northeast Africa as an important area for human movements
during the Holocene. Eurasian populations have moved back into Northeastern Africa and …

Some aspects of human cognition and behavior appear unusual or exaggerated relative to
those of other intelligent, warm-blooded, long-lived social species––including certain …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is the most promising region of the world to conduct high-
throughput studies to unveil adaptations to infectious diseases due to several reasons …

The rich linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity of Ethiopia provides an unprecedented
opportunity to understand the level to which cultural factors correlate with--and shape …

Admixture is a fundamental process that has shaped patterns of genetic variation and the
risk for disease in human populations. Here, we introduce the AncestryGrapher toolkit for …

This chapter's primary audience are researchers who work with genetic data. The
committee's intent is to provide practical guidance for using descent-associated population …

The Descent of Man. Because it was relevant, he attached an essay on Selection in Relation
to Sex. He noted that, across species, males tend to be better ornamented, and better …

Background Mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with molecular phenotypes is
a powerful approach for identifying the genes and molecular mechanisms underlying human …

Landscape, climate, and culture can all structure human populations, but few methods are
designed to disentangle the importance of these many variables. We developed a machine …

Abstract Principal Component Analysis (PCA) projects high-dimensional genotype data into
a few components that discern populations. Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) are a small …