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Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers

Overview of attention for article published in Science, October 2017
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Title
Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers
Published in
Science, October 2017
DOI 10.1126/science.aao1807
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Authors

Martin Sikora, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Vitor C Sousa, Anders Albrechtsen, Thorfinn Korneliussen, Amy Ko, Simon Rasmussen, Isabelle Dupanloup, Philip R Nigst, Marjolein D Bosch, Gabriel Renaud, Morten E Allentoft, Ashot Margaryan, Sergey V Vasilyev, Elizaveta V Veselovskaya, Svetlana B Borutskaya, Thibaut Deviese, Dan Comeskey, Tom Higham, Andrea Manica, Robert Foley, David J Meltzer, Rasmus Nielsen, Laurent Excoffier, Marta Mirazon Lahr, Ludovic Orlando, Eske Willerslev

Abstract

Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band relatedness and inbreeding. When these wider social networks evolved among HGs is unknown. Here, we investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present in the Upper Paleolithic (UP), using complete genome sequences from Sunghir, a site dated to ~34 thousand years BP (kya) containing multiple anatomically modern human (AMH) individuals. We demonstrate that individuals at Sunghir derive from a population of small effective size, with limited kinship and levels of inbreeding similar to HG populations. Our findings suggest that UP social organization was similar to that of living HGs, with limited relatedness within residential groups embedded in a larger mating network.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 68 22%
Researcher 45 15%
Student > Bachelor 37 12%
Student > Master 33 11%
Professor 22 7%
Other 51 17%
Unknown 48 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 76 25%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 62 20%
Arts and Humanities 33 11%
Social Sciences 21 7%
Mathematics 8 3%
Other 41 13%
Unknown 63 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 755. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 March 2024.
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