Genomewide scans for natural selection (GWSS) have become increasingly common over
the last 15 years due to increased availability of genome‐scale genetic data. Here, we report …

Background Skin color is a well-recognized adaptive trait and has been studied extensively
in humans. Understanding the genetic basis of adaptation of skin color in various …

INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama …

Little is known regarding the first people to enter the Americas and their genetic legacy.
Genomic analysis of the oldest human remains from the Americas showed a direct …

Maladaptation to modern diets has been implicated in several chronic disorders. Given the
higher prevalence of disease such as dental caries and chronic gum diseases in …

Studies in Western cultures have observed that both children and adults tend to overimitate,
copying causally irrelevant actions in the presence of clear causal information. Investigation …

The human genetic diversity of the Americas has been affected by several events of gene
flow that have continued since the colonial era and the Atlantic slave trade. Moreover …

The evolutionary history of the human pygmy phenotype (small body size), a characteristic of
African and Southeast Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers, is largely unknown. Here we use a …

Investigating past and present human adaptation to the Congo Basin tropical forest can
shed light on how climate and ecosystem variability have shaped human evolution. Here …