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Human generation times across the past 250,000 years
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The generation times of our recent ancestors can tell us about both the biology and social organization of prehistoric humans, placing human evolution on an absolute time scale. We present a method for predicting historical male and female generation times based on changes in the mutation spectrum. Our analyses of whole-genome data reveal an average generation time of 26.9 years across the past 250,000 years, with fathers consistently older (30.7 years) than mothers (23.2 years). Shifts in sex-averaged generation times have been driven primarily by changes to the age of paternity, although we report a substantial increase in female generation times in the recent past. We also find a large difference in generation times among populations, reaching back to a time when all humans occupied Africa.
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The site's principal occupation lasted only ~190 years (110-340, 95%) or ~7.0 generations (4.0-12.6, 95%), assuming 27-year generations.
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- Authors
- Wang, R. J., Al-Saffar, S. I., Rogers, J., & Hahn, M. W.
- Affiliations
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
- Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
- Human Genome Sequencing Center and Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
- Venue
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2023-01-06
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
- PMC
- PMC9821931
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 8
- Language
- en
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