The largest movements and replacements of human populations since the end of the Ice
Ages resulted from the geographically uneven rise of food production around the world. The …

Objective To describe differences in the age of onset of menopause and in the prevalence of
climacteric symptoms in different geographical areas. Design Systematic review of …

We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by sequencing the genomes of Late
Upper Palaeolithic (13,300 years old, 1.4-fold coverage) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old …

There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

Understanding the genetic structure of the European population is important, not only from a
historical perspective, but also for the appropriate design and interpretation of genetic …

The ancestry of modern Europeans is a subject of debate among geneticists, archaeologists,
and anthropologists. A crucial question is the extent to which Europeans are descended …

▪ Abstract Several unique properties of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including its
high copy number, maternal inheritance, lack of recombination, and high mutation rate, have …

Using principal component (PC) analysis, we studied the genetic constitution of 3,112
individuals from Europe as portrayed by more than 270,000 single nucleotide …

Clinal patterns of autosomal genetic diversity within Europe have been interpreted in
previous studies in terms of a Neolithic demic diffusion model for the spread of agriculture; in …