Benjamin Vernot

TL;DR: Comparisons with available archaic and diverse modern human Y chromosomes indicated that, similar to the maternally inherited mitochondria, the human and Neanderthal Y chromosomes were more closely related to each other compared with the Denisovan Y chromosome, which supports the conclusion that interbreeding between early humans and Neanderthals and selection replaced the more ancient Denisovian-like Y chromosome and mitochondria in Neanderthal.

TL;DR: In this article, the population history of ancient hominins from trace amounts of nuclear DNA in sediments has been studied and two radiation events in Neanderthal history during the early part of the Late Pleistocene were identified.

TL;DR: Genome-scale single-nucleotide polymorphism data and whole-genome sequences from a contemporary human pygmy population living on Flores near the cave where H. floresiensis was found show multiple independent instances of hominin insular dwarfism occurred on Flores.

TL;DR: The identified Neandertal lineages that persist in the DNA of modern humans, in wholegenome sequences from 379 European and 286 East Asian individuals, provide a new avenue for paleogenomics studies, allowing substantial amounts of populationlevel DNA sequence information to be obtained from extinct groups even in the absence of fossilized remains.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the analysis of DNA from 728 sediment samples that were collected in a grid-like manner from layers dating to the Pleistocene epoch, revealing the sequence of Denisovan, Neanderthal and faunal occupation of Denisova Cave, and evidence for the appearance of modern humans at least 45,000 years ago.