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The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
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Modern humans arrived in Europe ~45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic composition before the start of farming ~8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from ~45,000-7,000 years ago. Over this time, the proportion of Neanderthal DNA decreased from 3-6% to around 2%, consistent with natural selection against Neanderthal variants in modern humans. Whereas there is no evidence of the earliest modern humans in Europe contributing to the genetic composition of present-day Europeans, all individuals between ~37,000 and ~14,000 years ago descended from a single founder population which forms part of the ancestry of present-day Europeans. An ~35,000-year-old individual from northwest Europe represents an early branch of this founder population which was then displaced across a broad region, before reappearing in southwest Europe at the height of the last Ice Age ~19,000 years ago. During the major warming period after ~14,000 years ago, a genetic component related to present-day Near Easterners became widespread in Europe. These results document how population turnover and migration have been recurring themes of European prehistory.
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- Authors
- Fu, Q., Posth, C., Hajdinjak, M., Petr, M., Mallick, S., Fernandes, D., Furtwängler, A., Haak, W., Meyer, M., Mittnik, A., Nickel, B., Peltzer, A., Rohland, N., Slon, V., Talamo, S., Lazaridis, I., Lipson, M., Mathieson, I., Schiffels, S., Skoglund, P., Derevianko, A. P., Drozdov, N., Slavinsky, V., Tsybankov, A., Cremonesi, R. G., Mallegni, F., Gély, B., Vacca, E., Morales, M. R. G., Straus, L. G., Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Teschler-Nicola, M., Constantin, S., Moldovan, O. T., Benazzi, S., Peresani, M., Coppola, D., Lari, M., Ricci, S., Ronchitelli, A., Valentin, F., Thevenet, C., Wehrberger, K., Grigorescu, D., Rougier, H., Crevecoeur, I., Flas, D., Semal, P., Mannino, M. A., Cupillard, C., Bocherens, H., Conard, N. J., Harvati, K., Moiseyev, V., Drucker, D. G., Svoboda, J., Richards, M. P., Caramelli, D., Pinhasi, R., Kelso, J., Patterson, N., Krause, J., Pääbo, S., & Reich, D.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (DE)
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (DE)
- Broad Institute (US)
- University College Dublin (IE)
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)
- University of Pisa (IT)
- University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT)
- Universidad de Cantabria (ES)
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT)
- Emil Racovita Institute of Speleology (RO)
- University of Ferrara (IT)
- University of Florence (IT)
- University of Siena (IT)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Bucharest (RO)
- California State University, Northridge (US)
- Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés (FR)
- Institute of Natural Sciences (BE)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment (DE)
- Russian Museum of Ethnography (RU)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Reich, David
- ORCID
- Fu, Qiaomei
- Posth, Cosimo
- Hajdinjak, Mateja
- Petr, Martin
- Mallick, Swapan
- Fernandes, Daniel
- Furtwängler, Anja
- Haak, Wolfgang
- Meyer, Matthias
- Mittnik, Alissa
- Peltzer, Alexander
- Rohland, Nadin
- Slon, Viviane
- Talamo, Sahra
- Lazaridis, Iosif
- Lipson, Mark
- Mathieson, Iain
- Schiffels, Stephan
- Skoglund, Pontus
- Derevianko, Anatoly P.
- Drozdov, Nikolai
- Slavinsky, Vyacheslav
- Vacca, Eligio
- Morales, Manuel R. González
- Straus, Lawrence G.
- Neugebauer-Maresch, Christine
- Constantin, Silviu
- Moldovan, Oana Teodora
- Benazzi, Stefano
- Peresani, Marco
- Coppola, Donato
- Lari, Martina
- Ronchitelli, Annamaria
- Valentin, Frédérique
- Wehrberger, Kurt
- Grigorescu, Dan
- Rougier, Hélène
- Flas, Damien
- Semal, Patrick
- Mannino, Marcello A.
- Cupillard, Christophe
- Bocherens, Hervé
- Conard, Nicholas J.
- Harvati, Katerina
- Moiseyev, Vyacheslav
- Drucker, Dorothée G.
- Richards, Michael P.
- Caramelli, David
- Pinhasi, Ron
- Kelso, Janet
- Patterson, Nick
- Krause, Johannes
- Pääbo, Svante
- Reich, David
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Volume
- 534
- Issue
- 7606
- Pages
- 200-205
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4943878
- OpenAlex
- W2344660378
- Cited by
- 959
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 53 · 2025: 77 · 2024: 103 · 2023: 84 · 2022: 100 · 2021: 105 · 2020: 97 · 2019: 110 · 2018: 93 · 2017: 101 · 2016: 34
- FWCI
- 90.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Bari Aldo Moro) (submittedVersion)
- California State University ScholarWorks (system-wide DSpace) (submittedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System University of Ferrara (University of Ferrara) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Use Siena air (University of Siena) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1032255)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Wenner-Gren Foundation (2014-453)
- Leakey Foundation (2015-2016)
- Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
- European Commission (219965)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 1052, project A02, FOR2237, KR 4015/1-1, 1FUGG)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (L1524016)
- Irish Research Council (GOIPG/2013/36)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDA05130202)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF P‐17258, P23612, P 17258, P21660, P 19347)
- Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca ((PRIN 2010), 2010-11, P.R.I.N. 2010/11)
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Vetenskapsrådet (2014-453)
- Universidad de Cantabria
- Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (31/2010)
- Russian Science Foundation (No. 14-50-00036, 14-50-, 14-50-00036)
- Regione del Veneto
- Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen
- National Institutes of Health
- California State University, Northridge
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM100233, R01GM100233)
- European Social Fund
- FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (283503, 263441)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic diversity and population structure
- Keywords
- ancient human genomes, Neanderthal ancestry, population turnover, migration, founder populations, demographic history, Last Glacial Maximum
- MeSH terms
- Animals, DNA, Europe, Biological Evolution, Female, Genetics, Population, Humans, Male, Middle East, Phylogeny, Population Dynamics, Selection, Genetic, Time Factors, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Founder Effect, White People, Ice Cover, History, Ancient, Neanderthals, Human Migration
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