Tag: migration
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Prehistoric Europe from a population genomic perspective
In a new publication in Current Opinion in Genetics and Development Torsten Günther and Mattias Jakobsson review the manifestation of demographic events in the genomes of prehistoric Europeans. Günther and Jakobsson. 2016. Genes mirror migrations and cultures in prehistoric Europe — a population genomic perspective. Science Direct, vol. 41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2016.09.004 Genomic information from ancient human remains is beginning to show…
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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…