Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

Palaeoproteomics is an emerging neologism used to describe the application of mass
spectrometry-based approaches to the study of ancient proteomes. As with palaeogenomics …

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long …

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese,
Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian …

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

Europe's prehistory oversaw dynamic and complex interactions of diverse societies, hitherto
unexplored at detailed regional scales. Studying 271 human genomes dated~ 4900 to 1600 …

Prevotella copri is a common human gut microbe that has been both positively and
negatively associated with host health. In a cross-continent meta-analysis exploiting> 6,500 …