The genomic origins of the world’s first farmers

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MARCHI Nina WINKELBACH Laura SCHULZ Ilektra BRAMI Maxime HOFMANOVÁ Zuzana BLÖCHER Jens REYNA-BLANCO Carlos S DIEKMANN Yoan THIÉRY Alexandre KAPOPOULOU Adamandia LINK Vivian PIUZ Valérie KREUTZER Susanne FIGARSKA Sylwia M GANIATSOU Elissavet PUKAJ Albert STRUCK Travis J GUTENKUNST Ryan N KARUL Necmi GERRITSEN Fokke PECHTL Joachim PETERS Joris ZEEB-LANZ Andrea LENNEIS Eva TESCHLER-NICOLA Maria TRIANTAPHYLLOU Sevasti STEFANOVIĆ Sofija PAPAGEORGOPOULOU Christina WEGMANN Daniel BURGER Joachim EXCOFFIER Laurent

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Cell
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Citation
Web https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742200455X
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.008
Keywords demographic inference; demogenomic modeling; demographic processes; ancient genomics; Neolithic transition; upper Palaeolithic; human evolution; population admixture
Description The precise genetic origins of the first Neolithic farming populations in Europe and Southwest Asia, as well as the processes and the timing of their differentiation, remain largely unknown. Demogenomic modeling of high-quality ancient genomes reveals that the early farmers of Anatolia and Europe emerged from a multiphase mixing of a Southwest Asian population with a strongly bottlenecked western hunter-gatherer population after the last glacial maximum. Moreover, the ancestors of the first farmers of Europe and Anatolia went through a period of extreme genetic drift during their westward range expansion, contributing highly to their genetic distinctiveness. This modeling elucidates the demographic processes at the root of the Neolithic transition and leads to a spatial interpretation of the population history of Southwest Asia and Europe during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
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