The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Although sled dogs are one of the most specialized groups of dogs, their origin and evolution
has received much less attention than many other dog groups. We applied a genomic …

Domesticated maize evolved from wild teosinte under human influences in Mexico beginning
around 9000 years before the present (yr BP), traversed Central America by ~7500 yr BP, …

The phylogenetic relationships between hominins of the Early Pleistocene epoch in Eurasia,
such as Homo antecessor, and hominins that appear later in the fossil record during the …

As sequencing technologies become more affordable, it is now realistic to propose studying
the evolutionary history of virtually any organism on a genomic scale. However, when …

The sequencing of ancient DNA has enabled the reconstruction of speciation, migration and
admixture events for extinct taxa 1 . However, the irreversible post-mortem degradation 2 of …

The complex evolutionary history of maize (Zea mays L. ssp. mays) has been clarified with
genomic-level data from modern landraces and wild teosinte grasses [1, 2], augmenting …

The evolutionary history of the wolf-like canids of the genus Canis has been heavily debated,
especially regarding the number of distinct species and their relationships at the …

The Eurasian grapevine (Vitis vinifera) has long been important for wine production as well
as being a food source. Despite being clonally propagated, modern cultivars exhibit great …

Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant hominid that inhabited densely forested environments of
Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene epoch 1 . Its evolutionary relationships to other great …