Ghosts of extinct apes: genomic insights into African hominid evolution

RA Foley, MM Lahr - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - cell.com
We are accustomed to regular announcements of new hominin fossils. There are now some
6000 hominin fossils, and up to 31 species. However, where are the announcements of …

Population dynamics and genetic connectivity in recent chimpanzee history

C Fontsere, M Kuhlwilm, C Morcillo-Suarez… - Cell Genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Knowledge on the population history of endangered species is critical for conservation, but
whole-genome data on chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is geographically sparse. Here, we …

Ignoring population structure in hominin evolutionary models can lead to the inference of spurious admixture events

R Tournebize, L Chikhi - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024 - nature.com
Genomic and ancient DNA data have revolutionized palaeoanthropology and our vision of
human evolution, with indisputable landmarks like the sequencing of Neanderthal and …

Local genetic adaptation to habitat in wild chimpanzees

HJ Ostridge, C Fontsere, E Lizano, DC Soto… - Science, 2025 - science.org
How populations adapt to their environment is a fundamental question in biology. Yet, we
know surprisingly little about this process, especially for endangered species, such as …

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture

C Gunasekaram, F Battiston, O Sadekar… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back
to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of …

Estimating bonobo (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) evolutionary history from nucleotide site patterns

CM Brand, FJ White, AR Rogers… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Admixture appears increasingly ubiquitous in the evolutionary history of various taxa,
including humans. Such gene flow likely also occurred among our closest living relatives …

Attractiveness of female sexual signaling predicts differences in female grouping patterns between bonobos and chimpanzees

M Surbeck, C Girard-Buttoz, L Samuni… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Here we show that sexual signaling affects patterns of female spatial association differently
in chimpanzees and bonobos, indicating its relevance in shaping the respective social …

Maximizing the acquisition of unique reads in noninvasive capture sequencing experiments

C Fontsere, M Alvarez‐Estape, J Lester… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Noninvasive samples as a source of DNA are gaining interest in genomic studies of
endangered species. However, their complex nature and low endogenous DNA content …

Functional morphological integration related to feeding biomechanics in the hominine skull

H Jung, D Strait, C Rolian, KL Baab - Journal of Human Evolution, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantifying and characterizing the pattern of trait covariances is crucial for understanding
how population-level patterns of integration might constrain or facilitate craniofacial …

Quantitative estimates of glacial refugia for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) since the Last Interglacial (120,000 BP)

CD Barratt, JD Lester, P Gratton… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Paleoclimate reconstructions have enhanced our understanding of how past climates have
shaped present‐day biodiversity. We hypothesize that the geographic extent of Pleistocene …