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| Title |
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe
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| Published in |
Nature, May 2016
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| DOI | 10.1038/nature17993 |
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| Authors |
Qiaomei Fu, Cosimo Posth, Mateja Hajdinjak, Martin Petr, Swapan Mallick, Daniel Fernandes, Anja Furtwängler, Wolfgang Haak, Matthias Meyer, 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, Nikolai Drozdov, Vyacheslav Slavinsky, Alexander Tsybankov, Renata Grifoni Cremonesi, Francesco Mallegni, Bernard Gély, Eligio Vacca, Manuel R. González Morales, Lawrence G. Straus, Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, 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, Michael P. Richards, David Caramelli, Ron Pinhasi, Janet Kelso, Nick Patterson, Johannes Krause, Svante Pääbo, David Reich |
| Abstract |
Modern humans arrived in Europe ~45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic composition before the start of farming ~8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from ~45,000-7,000 years ago. Over this time, the proportion of Neanderthal DNA decreased from 3-6% to around 2%, consistent with natural selection against Neanderthal variants in modern humans. Whereas there is no evidence of the earliest modern humans in Europe contributing to the genetic composition of present-day Europeans, all individuals between ~37,000 and ~14,000 years ago descended from a single founder population which forms part of the ancestry of present-day Europeans. An ~35,000-year-old individual from northwest Europe represents an early branch of this founder population which was then displaced across a broad region, before reappearing in southwest Europe at the height of the last Ice Age ~19,000 years ago. During the major warming period after ~14,000 years ago, a genetic component related to present-day Near Easterners became widespread in Europe. These results document how population turnover and migration have been recurring themes of European prehistory. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 52 | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 24 | 7% |
| Spain | 19 | 5% |
| Germany | 9 | 3% |
| Canada | 8 | 2% |
| France | 8 | 2% |
| Mexico | 6 | 2% |
| Chile | 5 | 1% |
| Japan | 5 | 1% |
| Other | 58 | 16% |
| Unknown | 158 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 247 | 70% |
| Scientists | 89 | 25% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 11 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,012 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 1% |
| Germany | 6 | <1% |
| Spain | 4 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Denmark | 2 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 10 | <1% |
| Unknown | 972 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 222 | 22% |
| Researcher | 178 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 109 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 95 | 9% |
| Professor | 54 | 5% |
| Other | 172 | 17% |
| Unknown | 182 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 266 | 26% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 214 | 21% |
| Arts and Humanities | 119 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 46 | 5% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 32 | 3% |
| Other | 110 | 11% |
| Unknown | 225 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 968. 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 22 April 2024.
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