What past selection pressures have shaped human traits and their variation and covariation
across individuals? These are key questions in the evolutionary social sciences. Recent …

Novel technologies for recovering DNA information from archaeological and historical
specimens have made available an ever-increasing amount of temporally spaced genetic …

Resolving the role of natural selection is a basic objective of evolutionary biology. It is
generally difficult to detect the influence of selection because ubiquitous non-selective …

Recent advances in DNA sequencing techniques have made it possible to monitor genomes
in great detail over time. This improvement provides an opportunity for us to study natural …

Whole-genome time-series allele frequency data are becoming more prevalent as ancient
DNA (aDNA) sequences and data from evolve-and-resequence (E&R) experiments are …

Innovations in ancient DNA (aDNA) preparation and sequencing technologies have
exponentially increased the quality and quantity of aDNA data extracted from ancient …

With the rapid growth of the number of sequenced ancient genomes, there has been
increasing interest in using this new information to study past and present adaptation. Such …

Over the past decade there has been an increasing focus on the application of the Wright-
Fisher diffusion to the inference of natural selection from genetic time series. A key …

Recent technological innovations, such as next generation sequencing and DNA
hybridisation enrichment, have made it possible to recover DNA information from historical …

A number of discrete time, finite population size models in genetics describing the dynamics
of allele frequencies are known to converge (subject to suitable scaling) to a diffusion …