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Reconstructing the genetic formation of Han Chinese from ancient genomes [PDF]

BMC Biology
Background The formation of the Han Chinese is deeply rooted in the Neolithic cultures of the Yellow River basin, particularly the pivotal Longshan cultural sphere which bridged prehistoric societies and early dynastic civilization.
Limin Qiu, Haodong Chen, Hui Chen, Chaochao Qin, Mengting Xu, Yiling Jiang, Hao Ma, Qu Shen, Yanying Peng, Xiaolu Mao, Yilan Liu, Baitong Wang, Zhi Ji, Kongyang Zhu, Yu Xu, Le Tao, Haifeng He, Hongming Zhou, Xinyue Zou, Xinyi Wang, Jiaxin Tang, Daohua Hao, Xiaokun Wang, Chuan-Chao Wang   +23 more
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A multidisciplinary overview on the Tupi-speaking people expansion. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Expansion of Tupi linguistic subfamilies. Abstract The cultural and biological diversity of South American indigenous groups represent extremes of human variability, exhibiting one of the highest linguistic diversities alongside a remarkably low within‐population genetic variation and an extremely high inter‐population genetic differentiation.
Castro E Silva MA, Hünemeier T.
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Inferring language dispersal patterns with velocity field estimation [PDF]

Nature Communications
Reconstructing the spatial evolution of languages can deepen our understanding of the demic diffusion and cultural spread. However, the phylogeographic approach that is frequently used to infer language dispersal patterns has limitations, primarily ...
Sizhe Yang, Xiaoru Sun, Li Jin, Menghan Zhang   +3 more
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The genomic history of East Asian Middle Neolithic millet- and rice-agricultural populations [PDF]

Cell Genomics
Summary: The Yellow and Yangtze river basins in China are among the world’s oldest independent agricultural centers, known for the domestication of millet and rice, respectively, yet their genetic history is poorly understood.
Jianxue Xiong, Yu Xu, Guoke Chen, Liping Yang, Yawei Zhou, Yiling Pan, Zhiyou Wang, Jiujiang Bai, Baoshuai Zhang, Guanghui Dong, Jingrong Pei, Xiaomin Yang, Liang Chen, Ningwu Kang, Yangyang Wu, Bangyan Wang, Kongyang Zhu, Panxin Du, Xiaolong Li, Hetong Wen, Xiaolin Ma, Tianyou Bai, Wanfa Gu, Yu Ye, Qian Wu, Xin Chang, Jingze Tan, Lei Gao, Dong Ge, Bicheng Li, Yishi Yang, Weiwei Feng, Yini Yang, Pengfei Sheng, Hailiang Meng, Rui Wang, Jiajing Zheng, Xin Jia, Li Jin, Chuan-Chao Wang, Shaoqing Wen   +40 more
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Pressure knapping west of the Rhine during the Mesolithic? New evidence from Kerkhove (Belgium). [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Until now, evidence for the use of pressure knapping in NW Europe during the Mesolithic has remained very scarce. In this paper, we present the technological (and functional) analysis of a new pressure knapped microbladelet assemblage from the Belgian ...
Hans Vandendriessche, Colas Guéret
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Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement: productivity transitions in Neolithic northern China [PDF]

Evolutionary Human Sciences
The transition to sedentary agricultural societies in northern China fuelled considerable demographic growth from 5000 to 2000 BC. In this article, we draw together archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bioarchaeological data and explore the ...
Chris J. Stevens, Yijie Zhuang, Dorian Q. Fuller   +2 more
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Tracing the origin and spread of agriculture in Europe. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2005
The origins of early farming and its spread to Europe have been the subject of major interest for some time. The main controversy today is over the nature of the Neolithic transition in Europe: the extent to which the spread was, for the most part ...
Ron Pinhasi, Joaquim Fort, Albert J Ammerman   +2 more
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Cultural diffusion was the main driving mechanism of the Neolithic transition in southern Africa. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
It is well known that the Neolithic transition spread across Europe at a speed of about 1 km/yr. This result has been previously interpreted as a range expansion of the Neolithic driven mainly by demic diffusion (whereas cultural diffusion played a ...
Antonieta Jerardino, Joaquim Fort, Neus Isern, Bernardo Rondelli   +3 more
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Genetic Formation of Neolithic Hongshan People and Demic Expansion of Hongshan Culture Inferred From Ancient Human Genomes [PDF]

Molecular Biology and Evolution
Baitong Wang, Guangping Fu, Le Tao
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Developmental models shed light on the earliest dental tissues, using Astraspis as an example

Palaeontology, Volume 66, Issue 6, November/December 2023., 2023
Abstract Fossils of extinct jawless vertebrates are pivotal to deciphering the evolutionary paths that led to the various forms of the vertebrate skeleton. For example, Pteraspidomorphs (stem‐gnathostomes), such as the Ordovician Astraspis, display some of the oldest remains of bony and ‘dental’ (dentine and enameloid) tissues.
Guillaume Houée, Jérémie Bardin, Damien Germain, Philippe Janvier, Nicolas Goudemand   +4 more
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