New finds in the palaeoanthropological and genomic records have changed our view of the
origins of modern human ancestry. Here we review our current understanding of how the …

BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

It was recently shown that the major genetic risk factor associated with becoming severely ill
with COVID-19 when infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

INTRODUCTION Large-scale human genome-sequencing studies to date have been limited
to large, metropolitan populations or to small numbers of genomes from each group. Much …

Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe witnessed the replacement
and partial absorption of local Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens populations of …

Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each
other more than 390,000 years ago,. Here we present the genome of 'Denisova 11', a bone …

The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

To date, the earliest modern human fossils found outside of Africa are dated to around
90,000 to 120,000 years ago at the Levantine sites of Skhul and Qafzeh. A maxilla and …

Two fossilized human crania (Apidima 1 and Apidima 2) from Apidima Cave, southern
Greece, were discovered in the late 1970s but have remained enigmatic owing to their …

INTRODUCTION The study of hominin history has progressed through both archaeological
and genetic insights. Although DNA sequencing from hominin skeletal remains allows the …