His specialty is in
ancient human genomics, and he was involved with the team that published the first and subsequent drafts of the Neanderthal Genome.
Not exact matches
A
genomic analysis of
ancient human remains from KwaZulu - Natal revealed that southern Africa has an important role to play in writing the history of humankind.
«With large present - day
genomic datasets and increased international collaboration to handle the many newly sequenced
ancient datasets, there is huge potential to understand the biology of
human prehistory in a way that has never been accessible before.»
The researchers were also able to fit the
genomic data of modern and
ancient humans into a simplified genetic model to reconstruct the deep population history of modern
humans outside Africa in the last 50,000 years.
Dogs» special relationship to
humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to
genomic analysis of an
ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 21.
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.
Large - scale
genomic analyses of
ancient human populations have become feasible partly due to refined sampling methods.
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».