Signatures of recent positive selection often overlap across human populations, but the
question of how often these overlaps represent a single ancestral event remains unresolved …

Identifying targets of positive selection in humans has, until recently, been frustratingly slow,
relying on the analysis of individual candidate genes. Genomics, however, has provided the …

The role of natural selection in shaping biological diversity is an area of intense interest in
modern biology. To date, studies of positive selection have primarily relied on genomic …

The role of positive selection in human evolution remains controversial. On the one hand,
scans for positive selection have identified hundreds of candidate loci, and the genome …

Natural selection that affected modern humans early in their evolution has likely shaped
some of the traits that set present-day humans apart from their closest extinct and living …

Genome-wide scanning for signals of recent positive selection is essential for a
comprehensive and systematic understanding of human adaptation. Here, we present a …

Genome-wide scans for selection have identified multiple regions of the human genome as
being targeted by positive selection. However, only a small proportion has been replicated …

The influence of positive selection sweeps in human evolution is increasingly debated,
although our ability to detect them is hampered by inherent uncertainties in the timing of past …

While hundreds of loci have been identified as reflecting strong-positive selection in human
populations, connections between candidate loci and specific selective pressures often …

Throughout human evolutionary history, large-scale migrations have led to intermixing (ie,
admixture) between previously separated human groups. Although classical and recent …