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Champlot S, Berthelot C, Pruvost M, Bennett EA, Grange T& Geigl E . 2010 An efficient …

The past decade has witnessed a revolution in ancient DNA (aDNA) research. Although the
field's focus was previously limited to mitochondrial DNA and a few nuclear markers, whole …

Over the past three decades, studies of ancient biomolecules—particularly ancient DNA,
proteins, and lipids—have revolutionized our understanding of evolutionary history. Though …

The rich fossil record of equids has made them a model for evolutionary processes 1 . Here
we present a 1.12-times coverage draft genome from a horse bone recovered from …

… (e–h) The microfossils recovered from ancient human dental calculus yielded morphological
matches to animal collagen fibers (e), a smooth long-cell phytolith (f) and starch granules of …

It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10% of Earth's terrestrial surface that is covered by
thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of the paleoenvironments of these …

No large group of recently extinct placental mammals remains as evolutionarily cryptic as
the approximately 280 genera grouped as ‘South American native ungulates’. To Charles …

The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about ad 750–1050)
was a far-flung transformation in world history 1, 2. Here we sequenced the genomes …

Milk is a major food of global economic importance and its consumption is regarded as a
classic example of gene-culture evolution. Humans have exploited animal milk as a food …

We used high-sensitivity, high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry to shotgun sequence
ancient protein remains extracted from a 43 000 year old woolly mammoth ( Mammuthus …