Ancient DNA from European Early Neolithic Farmers Reveals Their Near Eastern Affinities

• Published in: PLoS biology Vol. 8; no. 11; p. e1000536
• Main Authors: Haak, Wolfgang, Balanovsky, Oleg, Sanchez, Juan J., Koshel, Sergey, Zaporozhchenko, Valery, Adler, Christina J., Der Sarkissian, Clio S. I., Brandt, Guido, Schwarz, Carolin, Nicklisch, Nicole, Dresely, Veit, Fritsch, Barbara, Balanovska, Elena, Villems, Richard, Meller, Harald, Alt, Kurt W., Cooper, Alan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.11.2010; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Agriculture; Archaeology; Debates; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics; Emigration and Immigration; Europe; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary Biology/Human Evolution; Farmers; Fossils; Genetic aspects; Genetics and Genomics/Population Genetics; Geography; Humans; Lifestyles; Mitochondrial DNA; Physiological aspects; Polymerase chain reaction; Population genetics; Principal components analysis; Europe; Australia; Turkey, Anatolia; Germany; DNA, Mitochondrial; Agriculture; Emigration & Immigration; Europe; Humans; Fossils

In Europe, the Neolithic transition (8,000-4,000 B.C.) from hunting and gathering to agricultural communities was one of the most important demographic events since the initial peopling of Europe by anatomically modern humans in the Upper Paleolithic (40,000 B.C.). However, the nature and speed of t...