▪ Abstract About 20 years ago, DNA sequences were separately described from the quagga
(a type of zebra) and an ancient Egyptian individual. What made these DNA sequences …

… (Box 2), and the study in question did not fulfil the criteria that in our experience are necessary
to exclude (to the greatest extent possible) that the results are due to contamination(s) ( …

Fossils and molecular data are two independent sources of information that should in principle
provide consistent inferences of when evolutionary lineages diverged. Here we use an …

… Sources of DNA include dried skins (S) up to 80 years old, tissues preserved in alcohol (A), …
The rate of replacement is about S times lower in the lineage leading to fish (F) than on …

Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of
Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft …

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 tried three different values for the selection coefficient: s = 5%, 1% and 0.5%. For these
parameters, an s of 1% resulted in the highest likelihoods, so we reported the results for s = 1…

Using DNA extracted from a finger bone found in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia, we have
sequenced the genome of an archaic hominin to about 1.9-fold coverage. This individual …

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 …

… We sequenced these libraries from both ends using Illumina’s Genome Analyzer IIx and
included reads for two indexes (11), which were added in the clean room to exclude the …