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Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

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Nielsen, Rasmus, Akey, Joshua M., Jakobsson, Mattias, Pritchard, Jonathan K., Tishkoff, Sarah, Willerslev, Eske·2017·Nature

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Advances in the sequencing and the analysis of the genomes of both modern and ancient peoples have facilitated a number of breakthroughs in our understanding of human evolutionary history. These include the discovery of interbreeding between anatomically modern humans and extinct hominins; the development of an increasingly detailed description of the complex dispersal of modern humans out of Africa and their population expansion worldwide; and the characterization of many of the genetic adaptions of humans to local environmental conditions. Our interpretation of the evolutionary history and adaptation of humans is being transformed by analyses of these new genomic data.

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  • Archaic hominins diverged from AMHs around 700 ka.

    “These archaic hominins diverged from AMHs around 700 ka (Meyer et al. 2012; Prüfer et al. 2014, 2017; Nielsen et al. 2017; Gómez-Robles 2019; Mafessoni et al. 2020)”

    From Archaic Introgression Shaped Human Circadian Traits (2023) · cites this paper as Nielsen et al. 2017

    The Origins in Africa section reports divergence of some archaic lineages from modern human lineages at 1.2–1.3 million years ago or as recently as 35,000 years ago. The meeting with Denisovans section gives a possible 200,000–400,000-year divergence between Denisovans and Neanderthals, not between archaic hominins and anatomically modern humans. A search for 700 ka found no passage in our copy supporting the claimed date. (LLM, conf=0.75)

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Authors
Nielsen, R., Akey, J. M., Jakobsson, M., Pritchard, J. K., Tishkoff, S., & Willerslev, E.
Affiliations
  • University of Copenhagen (DK)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Uppsala University (SE)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
Corresponding author
Nielsen, Rasmus
Venue
Nature
Published
2017-01-18
Volume
541
Issue
7637
Pages
302-310
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2575914858
Cited by
728
References
142
Citations by year
2026: 34 · 2025: 83 · 2024: 69 · 2023: 63 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 138 · 2020: 82 · 2019: 62 · 2018: 82 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
9.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Research Foundation
  • Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
  • Lundbeckfonden (R109-2012-9995, R70-2010-6286, KU2016, R155-2013-16338, R38-2008-3048, R24-2008-2527)
  • Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
  • Vetenskapsrådet
  • H. Lundbeck A/S
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM113657, R01GM110068, R01GM116044)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01DK104339)
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
human migration, human evolution, ancient DNA, population growth, genetic adaptation, human dispersal
MeSH terms
Acclimatization, Africa, Animals, Geography, Humans, Selection, Genetic, Genome, Human, Evolution, Molecular, Genomics, History, Ancient, Neanderthals, Human Migration

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