Category: Research
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Early farmers of Anatolia
A new publication (Kilinç et al. 2016. The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia) sheds light into the demographic history of early farmers in Anatolia. The paper appeared in Current Biology.
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New approach to tracking population changes
A new publication by Lucie Gattepaille, Torsten Günther and Mattias Jakobsson describes a new approach to investigate population size changes in the past. Gattepaille et al. 2016. Inferring Past Effective Population Size from Distributions of Coalescent Times. Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.185058 Abstract Inferring and understanding changes in effective population size over time is…
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Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa
A new article from the Jakobsson Lab members appeared in Scientific Reports. Hervella, M., Svensson, E., Alberdi, A. et al. The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa. Sci Rep 6, 25501 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep25501 Abstract After the dispersal of modern humans (Homo sapiens) Out of Africa, hominins with a similar morphology to that of present-day…
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Anatolia as the source of the European Neolithic gene pool
A new article from the lab appeared in Current Biology. Omrak et al. 2016. Genomic Evidence Establishes Anatolia as the Source of the European Neolithic Gene Pool. Report. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.12.019 Highlights
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Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques
The research described in the article by Günther et al. (2015) in PNAS reveals that early Iberian farmers are the closest ancestors to modern-day Basques, in contrast to previous hypotheses. Significance The transition from a foraging subsistence strategy to a sedentary farming society is arguably the greatest innovation in human history. Some modern-day groups—specifically the…
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Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers
An international team led by researchers at Uppsala University and Stockholm University reports a breakthrough in understanding the demographic history of Stone-Age humans. The findings are published in Science, Skoglund et al. (2014). Abstract Prehistoric population structure associated with the transition to an agricultural lifestyle in Europe remains a contentious idea. Population-genomic data from 11…