Inferring human evolutionary history - Jasmin Rees and Dr Aida Andrés
9 March 2022
A perspective on the recent paper by Wohn’s et al, 2020 was published this month in Science, written by PhD student Jasmin Rees and Dr Aida Andrés.Ìý
![Time in Years Picture of Time in Years](/biosciences/sites/biosciences/files/styles/large_image/public/image.png?itok=Rm17aTXB)
This perspective covers theÌýwork 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.
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ÌýFigure taken from Wohns et al, Science, 2022
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