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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
- I. Lazaridis, N. Patterson, +117 authors J. Krause
- Biology, Geography
- 2 April 2014
We sequenced genomes from a ∼7,000 year old early farmer from Stuttgart in Germany, an ∼8,000 year old hunter-gatherer from Luxembourg, and seven ∼8,000 year old hunter-gatherers from southern… Expand
Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers
- Barbara Bramanti, Mark George Thomas, +13 authors Joachim Burger
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 2 October 2009
Cultivating Farmers Were the ancestors of modern Europeans the local hunter-gatherers who assimilated farming practices from neighboring cultures, or were they farmers who migrated from the Near East… Expand
Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe
- S. Shennan, S. Downey, +5 authors Mark George Thomas
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature communications
- 1 October 2013
Following its initial arrival in SE Europe 8,500 years ago agriculture spread throughout the continent, changing food production and consumption patterns and increasing population densities. Here we… Expand
The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe
- Y. Itan, Adam Powell, M. Beaumont, J. Burger, Mark George Thomas
- Biology, Computer Science
- PLoS Comput. Biol.
- 1 August 2009
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Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior
- Adam Powell, S. Shennan, Mark George Thomas
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 5 June 2009
War and Peace? Modern behavior, including the development of advanced tools, musical instruments, and art, seems to have arisen in humans in stages. The earliest hints are seen in Africa about 70 to… Expand
A new time-scale for ray-finned fish evolution
- Imogen A. Hurley, R. Mueller, +7 authors M. Coates
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 February 2007
The Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) is the largest and most diverse vertebrate group, but little is agreed about the timing of its early evolution. Estimates using mitochondrial genomic data… Expand
A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture.
- Monika Karmin, L. Saag, +97 authors T. Kivisild
- Biology, Medicine
- Genome research
- 1 April 2015
It is commonly thought that human genetic diversity in non-African populations was shaped primarily by an out-of-Africa dispersal 50-100 thousand yr ago (kya). Here, we present a study of 456… Expand
Absence of the lactase-persistence-associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans
- J. Burger, M. Kirchner, B. Bramanti, W. Haak, Mark George Thomas
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 6 March 2007
Lactase persistence (LP), the dominant Mendelian trait conferring the ability to digest the milk sugar lactose in adults, has risen to high frequency in central and northern Europeans in the last… Expand
A novel polymorphism associated with lactose tolerance in Africa: multiple causes for lactase persistence?
- C. Ingram, Mohamed F. El-Amin, +8 authors D. Swallow
- Biology, Medicine
- Human Genetics
- 2006
Persistence or non-persistence of lactase expression into adult life is a polymorphic trait that has been attributed to a single nucleotide polymorphism (C-13910T) in an enhancer element 13.9 kb… Expand
Lactose digestion and the evolutionary genetics of lactase persistence
- C. Ingram, C. Mulcare, Y. Itan, Mark George Thomas, D. Swallow
- Biology, Medicine
- Human Genetics
- 2008
It has been known for some 40 years that lactase production persists into adult life in some people but not in others. However, the mechanism and evolutionary significance of this variation have… Expand