Genomics – Novo Scriptorium

This post is a presentation of information, sourced from official publications, on the very interesting subject of Neolithization in Britain. Continue reading “The Neolithic Britons originated from the Aegean” →

Here we present selected parts of the interesting paper titled “A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes”, by Qiaomei Fu et al. Continue reading “Major events in human evolution occurred far earlier than previously thought, study suggests” →

In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled “Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods“, by Verena J. Schuenemann et al. Continue reading “Ancient Egyptian mummies as a genetic source to study ancient human history – What have we learned so far” →

An international team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has analyzed two 3,800-year-old Y. pestis genomes that suggest a Bronze Age origin for bubonic plague. Continue reading “Bubonic plague had a Bronze Age origin, study finds” →

The biological makeup of humans in East Asia is shaping up to be a very complex story, with greater diversity and more distant contacts than previously known, according to a study analyzing the genome of a man that died in the Tianyuan Cave near Beijing, China 40,000 years ago. Continue reading “The Tianyuan Cave man; the earliest (40,000 yBP) ancient DNA from East Asia and what we have learned from it” →

Tag: Genomics