Small populations are often exposed to high inbreeding and mutational load that can increase
the risk of extinction. The Sumatran rhinoceros was widespread in Southeast Asia, but is …

From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

The roles of migration, admixture and acculturation in the European transition to farming
have been debated for over 100 years. Genome-wide ancient DNA studies indicate …

The Late Pleistocene global extinction of many terrestrial mammal species has been a
subject of intensive scientific study for over a century, yet the relative contributions of …

Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early European
farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age 1. To understand this, here we …

The history of the British Isles and Ireland is characterized by multiple periods of major
cultural change, including the influential transformation after the end of Roman rule, which …

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 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 …

In Western Europe, the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition is associated with the
disappearance of Neandertals and the spread of anatomically modern humans (AMHs). Current …

Dogs were present in the Americas before the arrival of European colonists, but the origin and
fate of these precontact dogs are largely unknown. We sequenced 71 mitochondrial and 7 …