DNA that survives in museum specimens, bones and other tissues recovered by
archaeologists is invariably fragmented and chemically modified. The extent to which such …

Due to the increasing throughput of current DNA sequencing instruments, sample multiplexing
is necessary for making economical use of available sequencing capacities. A widely …

Denisovans, a sister group of Neandertals, have been described on the basis of a nuclear
genome sequence from a finger phalanx (Denisova 3) found in Denisova Cave in the Altai …

Cave sediments have been shown to preserve ancient DNA but so far have not yielded the
genome-scale information of skeletal remains. We retrieved and analyzed human and …

We present a high-quality genome sequence of a Neanderthal woman from Siberia. We
show that her parents were related at the level of half-siblings and that mating among close …

We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

The geographic and temporal origins of the domestic dog remain controversial, as genetic
data suggest a domestication process in East Asia beginning 15,000 years ago, whereas the …

Performing genetic studies in multiple human populations can identify disease risk alleles
that are common in one population but rare in others, with the potential to illuminate …

We present the DNA sequence of 17,367 protein-coding genes in two Neandertals from Spain
and Croatia and analyze them together with the genome sequence recently determined …

The Protoaurignacian culture is pivotal to the debate about the timing of the arrival of modern
humans in western Europe and the demise of Neandertals. However, which group is …