Pontus Skoglund

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an emerging model for the early peopling of Vanuatu combining the genetic and archaeological evidence, and respond specifically to the criticisms of two contributors: Matisoo-Smith and Sand.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present genetic data from Palaeolithic human individuals in the United Kingdom and the oldest human DNA thus far obtained from Britain or Ireland, and determine that a Late Upper Palae-olithic individual from Gough's Cave probably traced all its ancestry to Magdalenian-associated individuals closely related to those from sites such as El Mirón Cave, Spain, and Troisième Caverne in Goyet, Belgium.

TL;DR: This paper found that the region around the pigmentation-associated gene SLC24A5 shows the greatest overrepresentation of Neolithic local ancestry in the genome (|Z| = 3.46), a major immunity locus, which also shows allele frequency deviations indicative of selection following admixture.

TL;DR: Analysis of the largest whole genome sequencing study of diverse South Asians to date reported analyses claiming that nearly all South Asians harbor ancestry from an unknown archaic human population that is neither Neanderthal nor Denisovan, contradict the conclusion.