Comparative studies of ethnically diverse human populations, particularly in Africa, are
important for reconstructing human evolutionary history and for understanding the genetic …

Africa is the birthplace of modern humans, and is the source of the geographic expansion of
ancestral populations into other regions of the world. Indigenous Africans are characterized …

The availability of complete human genome sequences from populations across the world
has given rise to new population genetic inference methods that explicitly model ancestral …

Demographic models built from genetic data play important roles in illuminating prehistorical
events and serving as null models in genome scans for selection. We introduce an inference …

Whole-genome sequences provide a rich source of information about human evolution.
Here we describe an effort to estimate key evolutionary parameters based on the whole …

High-throughput sequencing technology enables population-level surveys of human
genomic variation. Here, we examine the joint allele frequency distributions across …

Species are commonly thought to be evolutionarily independent in a way that populations
within a species are not. In recent years, studies that seek to identify evolutionarily …

Quantifying patterns of population structure in Africans and African Americans illuminates
the history of human populations and is critical for undertaking medical genomic studies on …

Data-driven studies of identity by descent (IBD) were recently enabled by high-resolution
genomic data from large cohorts and scalable algorithms for IBD detection. Yet, haplotype …

We synthesize African paleoclimate from 150 to 30 ka (thousand years ago) using 85
diverse datasets at a regional scale, testing for coherence with North Atlantic …