Anja Furtwängler

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from ~45,000-7,000 years ago and find that the proportion of Neanderthal DNA decreased from 3-6% to around 2%, consistent with natural selection against Neanderthal variants in modern humans.

TL;DR: Demographic modeling not only indicates an LGM genetic bottleneck, but also provides surprising evidence of a major population turnover in Europe around 14,500 years ago during the Late Glacial, a period of climatic instability at the end of the Pleistocene.

TL;DR: Genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone suggests a population replacement that began at least 9,000 years ago and was followed by substantial population continuity in multiple regions.

TL;DR: It is shown that Minoans and Mycenaeans were genetically similar, having at least three-quarters of their ancestry from the first Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and the Aegean, and most of the remainder from ancient populations related to those of the Caucasus and Iran.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report genome-wide DNA data from 38 ancient North Europeans ranging from ~9500 to 2200 years before present, and reveal that the first Scandinavian farmers derive their ancestry from Anatolia 1000 years earlier than previously demonstrated.