Modern humans arrived in Europe ~45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic
composition before the start of farming ~8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide …

Background Recent analyses of de novo DNA mutations in modern humans have suggested
a nuclear substitution rate that is approximately half that of previous estimates based on …

Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated
with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout …

Cattle domestication from wild aurochsen was among the most important innovations during
the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The available genetic and archaeological evidence …

How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models are …

During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with
the anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of …

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1 , 2 . Our knowledge of
the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing …

In spite of past controversies, the field of ancient DNA is now a reliable research area due to
recent methodological improvements. A series of recent large-scale studies have revealed …

Despite centuries of research, much about the barbarian migrations that took place between
the fourth and sixth centuries in Europe remains hotly debated. To better understand this …

The NovaSeq 6000 is a sequencing platform from Illumina that enables the sequencing of
short reads with an output up to 6 Tb. The NovaSeq 6000 uses the typical Illumina sequencing …