The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

[HTML][HTML] We are what, when, and how we eat: the evolutionary impact of dietary shifts on physical and cognitive development, health, and disease

NL Bragazzi, D Del Rio, EA Mayer, P Mena - Advances in Nutrition, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract “We are what, when, and how we eat”: the evolution of human dietary habits mirrors
the evolution of humans themselves. Key developments in human history, such as the …

Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia

J Blöcher, M Brami, IS Feinauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

Tracing the Evolution of Human Immunity Through Ancient DNA

E Patin, L Quintana-Murci - Annual Review of Immunology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Infections have imposed strong selection pressures throughout human evolution, making the
study of natural selection's effects on immunity genes highly complementary to disease …

Socio-cultural practices may have affected sex differences in stature in Early Neolithic Europe

SL Cox, N Nicklisch, M Francken, J Wahl… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
The rules and structure of human culture impact health as much as genetics or environment.
To study these relationships, we combine ancient DNA (n= 230), skeletal metrics (n= 391) …

Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe

P Gelabert, P Bickle, D Hofmann… - Nature human …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) Neolithic communities were the first to spread
farming across large parts of Europe. We report genome-wide data for 250 individuals: 178 …

Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities

GA Gnecchi-Ruscone, Z Rácz, L Samu, T Szeniczey… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract From ad 567–568, at the onset of the Avar period, populations from the Eurasian
Steppe settled in the Carpathian Basin for approximately 250 years. Extensive sampling for …

[HTML][HTML] Hunter-gatherer admixture facilitated natural selection in Neolithic European farmers

T Davy, D Ju, I Mathieson, P Skoglund - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Ancient DNA has revealed multiple episodes of admixture in human prehistory during
geographic expansions associated with cultural innovations. One important example is the …

Leveraging ancient DNA to uncover signals of natural selection in Europe lost due to admixture or drift

D Pandey, M Harris, NR Garud… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Large ancient DNA (aDNA) studies offer the chance to examine genomic changes over time,
providing direct insights into human evolution. While recent studies have used time-stratified …

Interdisciplinary analyses of Bronze Age communities from Western Hungary reveal complex population histories

D Gerber, B Szeifert, O Székely, B Egyed… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we report 21 ancient shotgun genomes from present-day Western Hungary,
from previously understudied Late Copper Age Baden, and Bronze Age Somogyvár …