Modeling the European Neolithic expansion suggests predominant within-group mating and limited cultural transmission - Nature Communications The Neolithic Revolution marked an important shift from foraging to farming in human society. Here, the authors show that in Europe the spread of farming involved mostly within-group mating and limite...

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Useful paper from @mp-williams.bsky.social and co. showing different modelling of the spread of Neolithic farming across Europe. Explores different rates and mechanisms of cultural transmission and suggests as migrants with origins in Anatolia moved across…

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Digging up the recent past: how effective are genomic tools at deciphering our genetic ancestry? Researchers evaluate the accuracy of common statistical methods to identify recent genetic ancestry in GENETICS.

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A likelihood-based framework for demographic inference from genealogical trees bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

My first skeet on work from our group! In case you need weekend reading, very proud of the new preprint spearheaded by the superb recent PhD, Caoqi Fan, on leveraging the genealogical trees to better infer the demographic histories of human populations!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...