While South Americans are underrepresented in human genomic diversity studies, Brazil
has been a classical model for population genetics studies on admixture. We present the …

Despite broad consensus on Africa as the main place of origin for anatomically modern
humans, their dispersal pattern out of the continent continues to be intensely debated. In extant …

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 …

About 100 km east of Rome, in the central Apennine Mountains, a critically endangered
population of ∼50 brown bears live in complete isolation. Mating outside this population is …

The proportion of Europeans descending from Neolithic farmers ∼10 thousand years ago (KYA)
or Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers has been much debated. The male-specific region of …

Dental phenotypic data are often used to reconstruct biological relatedness among past
human groups. Teeth are an important data source because they are generally well preserved …

Helicobacter pylori, a dominant member of the gastric microbiota, shares co-evolutionary
history with humans. This has led to the development of genetically distinct H. pylori …

The Tai–Kadai (TK) language family is thought to have originated in southern China and
spread to Thailand and Laos, but it is not clear if TK languages spread by demic diffusion (ie, a …

The gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori shares a coevolutionary history with humans that
predates the out-of-Africa diaspora, and the geographical specificities of H. pylori populations …

Objectives: The notion that patterns of linguistic and biological variation may cast light on
each other and on population histories dates back to Darwin's times; yet, turning this intuition …