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Cosimo Posth
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 67
Citations - 5851
Cosimo Posth is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Ancient DNA. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 57 publications receiving 4153 citations. Previous affiliations of Cosimo Posth include University of Tübingen.
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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
Iosif Lazaridis,Iosif Lazaridis,Nick Patterson,Alissa Mittnik,Gabriel Renaud,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Karola Kirsanow,Peter H. Sudmant,Joshua G. Schraiber,Joshua G. Schraiber,Sergi Castellano,Mark Lipson,Bonnie Berger,Bonnie Berger,Christos Economou,Ruth Bollongino,Qiaomei Fu,Kirsten I. Bos,Susanne Nordenfelt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Heng Li,Heng Li,Cesare de Filippo,Kay Prüfer,Susanna Sawyer,Cosimo Posth,Wolfgang Haak,Fredrik Hallgren,Elin Fornander,Nadin Rohland,Nadin Rohland,Dominique Delsate,Michael Francken,Jean-Michel Guinet,Joachim Wahl,George Ayodo,Hamza A. Babiker,Hamza A. Babiker,Graciela Bailliet,Elena Balanovska,Oleg Balanovsky,Ramiro Barrantes,Gabriel Bedoya,Haim Ben-Ami,Judit Bene,Fouad Berrada,Claudio M. Bravi,Francesca Brisighelli,George B.J. Busby,Francesco Calì,Mikhail Churnosov,David E. C. Cole,Daniel Corach,Larissa Damba,George van Driem,Stanislav Dryomov,Jean-Michel Dugoujon,Sardana A. Fedorova,Irene Gallego Romero,Marina Gubina,Michael F. Hammer,Brenna M. Henn,Tor Hervig,Ugur Hodoglugil,Aashish R. Jha,Sena Karachanak-Yankova,Rita Khusainova,Elza Khusnutdinova,Rick A. Kittles,Toomas Kivisild,William Klitz,Vaidutis Kučinskas,Alena Kushniarevich,Leila Laredj,Sergey Litvinov,Theologos Loukidis,Theologos Loukidis,Robert W. Mahley,Béla Melegh,Ene Metspalu,Julio Molina,Joanna L. Mountain,Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi,Desislava Nesheva,Thomas B. Nyambo,Ludmila P. Osipova,Jüri Parik,Fedor Platonov,Olga L. Posukh,Valentino Romano,Francisco Rothhammer,Francisco Rothhammer,Igor Rudan,Ruslan Ruizbakiev,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Antti Sajantila,Antonio Salas,Elena B. Starikovskaya,Ayele Tarekegn,Draga Toncheva,Shahlo Turdikulova,Ingrida Uktveryte,Olga Utevska,René Vasquez,Mercedes Villena,Mikhail Voevoda,Cheryl A. Winkler,Levon Yepiskoposyan,Pierre Zalloua,Pierre Zalloua,Tatijana Zemunik,Alan Cooper,Cristian Capelli,Mark G. Thomas,Andres Ruiz-Linares,Sarah A. Tishkoff,Lalji Singh,Kumarasamy Thangaraj,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,David Comas,Rem I. Sukernik,Mait Metspalu,Matthias Meyer,Evan E. Eichler,Joachim Burger,Montgomery Slatkin,Svante Pääbo,Janet Kelso,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich,Johannes Krause,Johannes Krause +136 more
TL;DR: It is shown that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west Europeanhunter-gatherer related ancestry.
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The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
Qiaomei Fu,Cosimo Posth,Cosimo Posth,Mateja Hajdinjak,Martin Petr,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Daniel Fernandes,Daniel Fernandes,Anja Furtwängler,Wolfgang Haak,Wolfgang Haak,Matthias Meyer,Alissa Mittnik,Alissa Mittnik,Birgit Nickel,Alexander Peltzer,Nadin Rohland,Viviane Slon,Sahra Talamo,Iosif Lazaridis,Mark Lipson,Iain Mathieson,Stephan Schiffels,Pontus Skoglund,Anatoly P. Derevianko,Anatoly P. Derevianko,Nikolai I. Drozdov,V. S. Slavinsky,A. A. Tsybankov,Renata Grifoni Cremonesi,Francesco Mallegni,Bernard Gély,E. Vacca,Manuel R. González Morales,Lawrence Guy Straus,Lawrence Guy Straus,Christine Neugebauer-Maresch,Maria Teschler-Nicola,Maria Teschler-Nicola,Silviu Constantin,Oana Teodora Moldovan,Stefano Benazzi,Marco Peresani,Donato Coppola,Martina Lari,Stefano Ricci,Annamaria Ronchitelli,Frédérique Valentin,Corinne Thevenet,Kurt Wehrberger,Dan Grigorescu,Hélène Rougier,Isabelle Crevecoeur,Damien Flas,Patrick Semal,Marcello A. Mannino,Christophe Cupillard,Hervé Bocherens,Nicholas J. Conard,Katerina Harvati,Vyacheslav Moiseyev,Dorothée G. Drucker,Jiří Svoboda,Jiří Svoboda,Michael P. Richards,David Caramelli,Ron Pinhasi,Janet Kelso,Nick Patterson,Johannes Krause,Johannes Krause,Svante Pääbo,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich +76 more
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.
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The genomic history of southeastern Europe
Iain Mathieson,Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg,Cosimo Posth,Cosimo Posth,Anna Szécsényi-Nagy,Nadin Rohland,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Iñigo Olalde,Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht,Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht,Francesca Candilio,Olivia Cheronet,Olivia Cheronet,Daniel Fernandes,Daniel Fernandes,Matthew Ferry,Matthew Ferry,Beatriz Gamarra,Gloria G. Fortes,Wolfgang Haak,Wolfgang Haak,Eadaoin Harney,Eadaoin Harney,Eppie R. Jones,Eppie R. Jones,Denise Keating,Ben Krause-Kyora,Isil Kucukkalipci,Megan Michel,Megan Michel,Alissa Mittnik,Alissa Mittnik,Kathrin Nägele,Mario Novak,Jonas Oppenheimer,Jonas Oppenheimer,Nick Patterson,Saskia Pfrengle,Kendra Sirak,Kendra Sirak,Kristin Stewardson,Kristin Stewardson,Stefania Vai,Stefan Alexandrov,Kurt W. Alt,Radian Andreescu,Dragana Antonović,Abigail Ash,Nadezhda Atanassova,Krum Bacvarov,Mende Balázs Gusztáv,Hervé Bocherens,Michael Bolus,Adina Boroneanţ,Yavor Boyadzhiev,Alicja Budnik,Josip Burmaz,Stefan Chohadzhiev,Nicholas J. Conard,Richard Cottiaux,Maja Čuka,Christophe Cupillard,Dorothée G. Drucker,Nedko Elenski,Michael Francken,Borislava Galabova,Georgi Ganetsovski,Bernard Gély,Tamás Hajdu,Veneta Handzhyiska,Katerina Harvati,Thomas Higham,Stanislav Iliev,Ivor Janković,Ivor Karavanić,Ivor Karavanić,Douglas J. Kennett,Darko Komšo,Alexandra Kozak,Damian Labuda,Martina Lari,Cătălin Lazăr,Maleen Leppek,Krassimir Leshtakov,Domenico Lo Vetro,Dženi Los,Ivaylo Lozanov,Maria Malina,Fabio Martini,Kath McSweeney,Harald Meller,Marko Menđušić,Pavel Mirea,Vyacheslav Moiseyev,Vanya Petrova,T. Douglas Price,Angela Simalcsik,Luca Sineo,Mario Šlaus,Vladimir Slavchev,Petar Stanev,Andrej Starović,Tamás Szeniczey,Sahra Talamo,Maria Teschler-Nicola,Maria Teschler-Nicola,Corinne Thevenet,Ivan Valchev,Frédérique Valentin,Sergey Vasilyev,Fanica Veljanovska,Svetlana Venelinova,Elizaveta Veselovskaya,Bence Viola,Bence Viola,Cristian Virag,Joško Zaninović,Steve Zäuner,Philipp W. Stockhammer,Philipp W. Stockhammer,Giulio Catalano,Raiko Krauß,David Caramelli,Gunita Zariņa,Bisserka Gaydarska,Malcolm Lillie,Alexey G. Nikitin,Inna Potekhina,Anastasia Papathanasiou,Dusan Boric,Clive Bonsall,Johannes Krause,Johannes Krause,Ron Pinhasi,Ron Pinhasi,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich +138 more
TL;DR: It is shown that southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between east and west after the arrival of farmers, with intermittent genetic contact with steppe populations occurring up to 2,000 years earlier than the migrations from the steppe that ultimately replaced much of the population of northern Europe.
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
Iosif Lazaridis,Iosif Lazaridis,Nick Patterson,Alissa Mittnik,Gabriel Renaud,Swapan Mallick,Swapan Mallick,Karola Kirsanow,Peter H. Sudmant,Joshua G. Schraiber,Joshua G. Schraiber,Sergi Castellano,Mark Lipson,Bonnie Berger,Bonnie Berger,Christos Economou,Ruth Bollongino,Qiaomei Fu,Kirsten I. Bos,Susanne Nordenfelt,Susanne Nordenfelt,Heng Li,Heng Li,Cesare de Filippo,Kay Prüfer,Susanna Sawyer,Cosimo Posth,Wolfgang Haak,Fredrik Hallgren,Elin Fornander,Nadin Rohland,Nadin Rohland,Dominique Delsate,Michael Francken,Jean-Michel Guinet,Joachim Wahl,George Ayodo,Hamza A. Babiker,Hamza A. Babiker,Graciela Bailliet,Elena Balanovska,Oleg Balanovsky,Ramiro Barrantes,Gabriel Bedoya,Haim Ben-Ami,Judit Bene,Fouad Berrada,Claudio M. Bravi,Francesca Brisighelli,George B.J. Busby,Francesco Calì,Mikhail Churnosov,David E. C. Cole,Daniel Corach,Larissa Damba,George van Driem,Stanislav Dryomov,Jean-Michel Dugoujon,Sardana A. Fedorova,Irene Gallego Romero,Marina Gubina,Michael F. Hammer,Brenna M. Henn,Tor Hervig,Ugur Hodoglugil,Aashish R. Jha,Sena Karachanak-Yankova,Rita Khusainova,Elza Khusnutdinova,Rick A. Kittles,Toomas Kivisild,William Klitz,Vaidutis Kučinskas,Alena Kushniarevich,Leila Laredj,Sergey Litvinov,Theologos Loukidis,Theologos Loukidis,Robert W. Mahley,Béla Melegh,Ene Metspalu,Julio Molina,Joanna L. Mountain,Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi,Desislava Nesheva,Thomas B. Nyambo,Ludmila P. Osipova,Jüri Parik,Fedor Platonov,Olga L. Posukh,Valentino Romano,Francisco Rothhammer,Francisco Rothhammer,Igor Rudan,Ruslan Ruizbakiev,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Hovhannes Sahakyan,Antti Sajantila,Antonio Salas,Elena B. Starikovskaya,Ayele Tarekegn,Draga Toncheva,Shahlo Turdikulova,Ingrida Uktveryte,Olga Utevska,René Vasquez,Mercedes Villena,Mikhail Voevoda,Cheryl A. Winkler,Levon Yepiskoposyan,Pierre Zalloua,Pierre Zalloua,Tatijana Zemunik,Alan Cooper,Cristian Capelli,Mark G. Thomas,Andres Ruiz-Linares,Sarah A. Tishkoff,Lalji Singh,Kumarasamy Thangaraj,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,Richard Villems,David Comas,Rem I. Sukernik,Mait Metspalu,Matthias Meyer,Evan E. Eichler,Joachim Burger,Montgomery Slatkin,Svante Pääbo,Janet Kelso,David Reich,David Reich,David Reich,Johannes Krause,Johannes Krause +136 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: west European hunter-gatherers, ancient north Eurasians related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians, who contributed to both Europeans and Near Easterners; and early European farmers, who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harboured west European hunters-gatherer related ancestry.
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Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe
Cosimo Posth,Gabriel Renaud,Alissa Mittnik,Alissa Mittnik,Dorothée G. Drucker,Hélène Rougier,Christophe Cupillard,Frédérique Valentin,Corinne Thevenet,Anja Furtwängler,Christoph Wißing,Michael Francken,Maria Malina,Michael Bolus,Martina Lari,Elena Gigli,Giulia Capecchi,Isabelle Crevecoeur,Cédric Beauval,Damien Flas,Mietje Germonpré,Johannes van der Plicht,Johannes van der Plicht,Richard Cottiaux,Bernard Gély,Annamaria Ronchitelli,Kurt Wehrberger,Dan Grigorescu,Jiří Svoboda,Jiří Svoboda,Patrick Semal,David Caramelli,Hervé Bocherens,Katerina Harvati,Nicholas J. Conard,Wolfgang Haak,Wolfgang Haak,Adam Powell,Johannes Krause,Johannes Krause +39 more
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.