Inferring human evolutionary history - Jasmin Rees and Dr Aida Andrés

This perspective covers the work completed by Wohns et al, highlighting its achievements in integrating datasets from multiple sources (including high-quality ancient genomes) to reconstruct the largest human genealogy to date. This perspective also addresses how this study was able to use information from low-quality ancient human samples to refine estimates, as well as their work to infer the geographic location of human ancestors. Rees and Andrés stress the power of these tree-recording methods, and their likely importance when exploring the evolutionary history of humans, as well as other species.

Read the full perspective at:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0498 

 Figure taken from Wohns et al, Science, 2022