Journal
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Volume 37, Issue 9, Pages 2691-2698Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa112
Keywords
population genetics; demographic history; human evolution
Funding
- Nation Human Genome Research Institute
- NIH [R01 HG009524]
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The prehistoric demography of human populations is an essential piece of information for illustrating our evolution. Despite its importance and the advancement of ancient DNA studies, our knowledge of human evolution is still limited, which is also the case for relatively recent population dynamics during and around the Holocene. Here, we inferred detailed demographic histories from 1 to 40 ka for 24 population samples using an improvedmodel-flexiblemethod with 36 million genome-wide noncoding CpG sites. Our results showed many population growth events that were likely due to the Neolithic Revolution (i.e., the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement). Our results help to provide a clearer picture of human prehistoric demography, confirming the significant impact of agriculture on population expansion, and provide new hypotheses and directions for future research.
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