Vitor C. Sousa

TL;DR: A flexible and robust simulation-based framework to infer demographic parameters from the site frequency spectrum (SFS) computed on large genomic datasets and shows that it allows one to study evolutionary models of arbitrary complexity, which cannot be tackled by other current likelihood-based methods.

TL;DR: A population expansion in northeast Australia during the Holocene epoch associated with limited gene flow from this region to the rest of Australia, consistent with the spread of the Pama–Nyungan languages is inferred.

TL;DR: Current data, models, methods and the potential pitfalls in using them will be considered here, especially with regard to including recombination in genetic models of the divergence process.

TL;DR: The results show that all three factors (genetic differentiation/gene flow, genetic diversity, and the sampling scheme) play a role in generating false bottleneck signals, and suggest an ad hoc method to counter this effect.

TL;DR: It is shown that individuals at Sunghir derive from a population of small effective size, with limited kinship and levels of inbreeding similar to HG populations, suggesting that Upper Paleolithic social organization was similar to that of living HGs, withlimited relatedness within residential groups embedded in a larger mating network.