ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Human evolution: a tale from ancient genomes.
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- Genetic transitions in the Neolithic and Bronze Age at Mas d'en Boixos (Catalonia, Spain).iScience · 2025Article
- Optimized in-solution enrichment of over a million ancient human SNPs.Genome biology · 2025Article
- Testing times: disentangling admixture histories in recent and complex demographies using ancient DNA.Genetics · 2024Article
- Testing Times: Challenges in Disentangling Admixture Histories in Recent and Complex Demographies.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Improving the extraction of ancientiScience · 2023Article
- Properties of 2-locus genealogies and linkage disequilibrium in temporally structured samples.Genetics · 2022Article
- Ancient mitochondrial genomes from the Argentinian Pampas inform the early peopling of the Southern Cone of South America.iScience · 2021Article
- A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
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- Ageing Throughout History: The Evolution of Human Lifespan.Journal of molecular evolution · 2020Review
- Unlocking the origins and biology of domestic animals using ancient DNA and paleogenomics.BMC biology · 2019Review
- Joint Estimates of Heterozygosity and Runs of Homozygosity for Modern and Ancient Samples.Genetics · 2019Article
- Late Bronze Age cultural origins of dairy pastoralism in Mongolia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
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- Harnessing ancient genomes to study the history of human adaptation.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2017Review
- Inferring Past Environments from Ancient Epigenomes.Molecular biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Perspectives on the history of evo-devo and the contemporary research landscape in the genomics era.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
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Abstract
The field of human ancient DNA (aDNA) has moved from mitochondrial sequencing that suffered from contamination and provided limited biological insights, to become a fully genomic discipline that is changing our conception of human history. Recent successes include the sequencing of extinct hominins, and true population genomic studies of Bronze Age populations. Among the emerging areas of aDNA research, the analysis of past epigenomes is set to provide more new insights into human adaptation and disease susceptibility through time. Starting as a mere curiosity, ancient human genetics has become a major player in the understanding of our evolutionary history.This article is part of the themed issue 'Evo-devo in the genomics era, and the origins of morphological diversity'.
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