▪ 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 …

DNA that has been recovered from archaeological and palaeontological remains makes it
possible to go back in time and study the genetic relationships of extinct organisms to their …

Although a rich record of Pleistocene human-associated archaeological assemblages
exists, the scarcity of hominin fossils often impedes the understanding of which hominins …

Using DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, we
have sequenced the genome of an archaic hominin to about 1.9-fold coverage. This …

Natural history museum collections provide unique resources for understanding how
species respond to environmental change, including the abrupt, anthropogenic climate …

High-throughput direct sequencing techniques have recently opened the possibility to
sequence genomes from Pleistocene organisms. Here we analyze DNA sequences …

If bone is considered as a composite of collagen (protein) and bioapatite (mineral), then
three pathways of diagenesis are identified:(1) chemical deterioration of the organic …

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 …

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 …

▪ Abstract The transition from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic is considered
one of the major revolutions in the prehistory of humankind. Explanations of the observable …