We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

Background Recent analyses of de novo DNA mutations in modern humans have suggested
a nuclear substitution rate that is approximately half that of previous estimates based on …

The extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) was a large type of cattle that ranged over
almost the whole Eurasian continent. The aurochs is the wild progenitor of modern cattle, …

We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile
Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously …

Ancient DNA studies have established that Neolithic European populations were descended
from Anatolian migrants 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 who received a limited amount of admixture …

Archaeozoological and genetic data indicate that taurine cattle were first domesticated from
local wild ox (aurochs) in the Near East some 10,500 years ago. However, while modern …

… Shennan for discussion and comments on the manuscript and R. Blank, M. Baales, B. …
Shennan for discussion and comments on the manuscript and R. Blank, M. Baales, B. …

… Approximately 56% of the variation can be explained by geographical distance (R 2 = 0.56).
… Here, only 29% of the variation can be explained by geographical distance (R 2 = 0.29). …

We present an extensive ancient DNA analysis of mainly Neolithic cattle bones sampled
from archaeological sites along the route of Neolithic expansion, from Turkey to North-Central …

The two living species of bison (European and American) are among the few terrestrial
megafauna to have survived the late Pleistocene extinctions. Despite the extensive bovid fossil …