The largest movements and replacements of human populations since the end of the Ice
Ages resulted from the geographically uneven rise of food production around the world. The …

Background Unravelling domestication processes is crucial for understanding how species
respond to anthropogenic pressures, forecasting crop responses to future global changes …

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 …

Languages, like genes, provide vital clues about human history,. The origin of the Indo-
European language family is “the most intensively studied, yet still most recalcitrant, problem …

Principal components analysis, PCA, is a statistical method commonly used in population
genetics to identify structure in the distribution of genetic variation across geographical …

Helicobacter pylori, a chronic gastric pathogen of human beings, can be divided into seven
populations and subpopulations with distinct geographical distributions. These modern …

Despite hundreds of reports involving both plants and animals, the mechanisms underlying
introgression remain obscure, even if some form of selection is frequently invoked …

Niche construction is the process by which organisms construct important components of
their local environment in ways that introduce novel selection pressures. Lactase …

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 …

In recent years, there has been a tendency to correlate the origin of modern culture and
language with that of anatomically modern humans. Here we discuss this correlation in the …