INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge and …

Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective pressures driving human evolution 1 ,
2 . This includes the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, the first outbreak of …

Despite broad agreement that the Americas were initially populated via Beringia, the land
bridge that connected far northeast Asia with northwestern North America during the …

Unlike copy number variants (CNVs), inversions remain an underexplored genetic variation
class. By integrating multiple genomic technologies, we discover 729 inversions in 41 …

Parental relatedness of present-day humans varies substantially across the globe, but little
is known about the past. Here we analyze ancient DNA, leveraging that parental relatedness …

There has been much interest in analyzing genome-scale DNA sequence data to infer
population histories, but inference methods developed hitherto are limited in model complexity …

Genetic evidence has revealed that the ancestors of modern human populations outside Africa
and their hominin sister groups, notably Neanderthals, exchanged genetic material in the …

The transition density function of the Wright–Fisher diffusion describes the evolution of
population-wide allele frequencies over time. This function has important practical applications in …

Let $\Lambda$ be a finite measure on the unit interval. A $\Lambda$-Fleming-Viot process
is a probability measure valued Markov process which is dual to a coalescent with multiple …

Studying how diverse human populations are related is of historical and anthropological
interest, in addition to providing a realistic null model for testing for signatures of natural …