… Haplogroups H, I, J, N1b, T, U, V, and W are characteristic of people of European descent,
and haplogroups A, B, C, and D are found in Asia and the New World, with haplogroups G, Y, …

The expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples over large parts of sub-Saharan Africa is still a
matter of debate—not only with respect to the propelling force behind it and the route(s) taken, …

… A further 50 Buryat samples were sequenced from np 16024–16383, giving sequences with
a length of 360 bp (Appendix B). The sequences reported here were deposited in HvrBase (…

Southern and eastern African populations that speak non-Bantu languages with click
consonants are known to harbour some of the most ancient genetic lineages in humans, but their …

The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter–gatherers
and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic …

The expansion of Bantu languages represents one of the most momentous events in the
history of Africa. While it is well accepted that Bantu languages spread from their homeland (…

… Although they speak only Yakut (and have spoken only Yakut as far back as the grandparental
generation—B. Pakendorf, personal observation), they currently claim Evenk ethnicity. …

Technological and cultural innovations as well as climate changes are thought to have
influenced the diffusion of major language phyla in sub-Saharan Africa. The most widespread …

… based on Y-chromosomal SNPs in Eurasian populations; not shown in Pakendorf et al.
2007).............… in the publications of the genetic data (Pakendorf et al. 2006, Pakendorf et al. 2007). …

… The approach is based on the following idea: If we consider an admixed population with
only two sources of ancestry from parental populations A and B, the contributions of A and B …