▪ Abstract About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga
(a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences …

In the past two decades, ancient DNA research has progressed from the retrieval of small
fragments of mitochondrial DNA from a few late Holocene specimens, to large-scale studies …

The human occupation history of Southeast Asia (SEA) remains heavily debated. Current
evidence suggests that SEA was occupied by Hòabìnhian hunter-gatherers until~ 4000 …

It has recently been shown that ancestors of New Guineans and Bougainville Islanders have
inherited a proportion of their ancestry from Denisovans, an archaic hominin group from …

Genetic analyses of permafrost and temperate sediments reveal that plant and animal DNA
may be preserved for long periods, even in the absence of obvious macrofossils. In Siberia …

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 …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

A recent dispersal of modern humans out of Africa is now widely accepted, but the routes
taken across Eurasia are still disputed. We show that mitochondrial DNA variation in isolated …

In just the last few years an explosion of discoveries-driven by information from the human
genome-has empowered researchers to address many long-standing questions about the …

In spite of past controversies, the field of ancient DNA is now a reliable research area due to
recent methodological improvements. A series of recent large-scale studies have revealed …