Matthias Meyer

TL;DR: It is shown that the great majority of present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations: West European Hunter-Gatherers (WHG), who contributed ancestry to all Europeans but not to Near Easterners; Ancient North Eurasians (ANE); and Early European Farmers (EEF), who were mainly of Near Eastern origin but also harbored WHG-related ancestry.

TL;DR: The huge potential collagen fingerprinting has for identifying hominin remains in highly fragmentary archaeological assemblages is demonstrated, improving the resources available for wider studies into human evolution.

TL;DR: The method is applied to a concrete example of bianalyte statistics in silver colloidal solutions and its significance is presented to provide a systematic framework with which several aspects of the statistics of SM-SERS signals can be analyzed in general.

TL;DR: Genomic data from seven 15,000-year-old modern humans attributed to the Iberomaurusian culture from Morocco are presented, finding a genetic affinity with early Holocene Near Easterners, best represented by Levantine Natufians, suggesting a pre-agricultural connection between Africa and the Near East.

TL;DR: 50 radiocarbon determinations from the late Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers of Denisova Cave are presented and a Bayesian age modelling approach is applied that combines chronometric, stratigraphic and genetic data to calculate probabilistically the age of the human fossils at the site.