Examining patterns of molecular genetic variation in both modern-day and ancient humans
has proved to be a powerful approach to learn about our origins. Rapid advances in DNA …

▪ Abstract The consequences of early agricultural development in several regions of the Old
and New Worlds included population growth, the spread of new material cultures and of …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

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 …

In Europe, the Neolithic transition (8,000–4,000 bc) from hunting and gathering to
agricultural communities was one of the most important demographic events since the initial …

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 …

Founder analysis is a method for analysis of nonrecombining DNA sequence data, with the
aim of identification and dating of migrations into new territory. The method picks out founder …

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 …

There still is no general agreement on the origins of the European gene pool, even though
Europe has been more thoroughly investigated than any other continent. In particular, there …

Genetic diversity in Europe has been interpreted as a reflection of phenomena occurring
during the Paleolithic (∼ 45,000 years before the present [BP]), Mesolithic (∼ 18,000 years …