Are Europeans Today Genetically Different from Their Ancestors?
Different ethnic groups have shaped the genetic makeup of today’s Europeans. Through migration from various regions of the world, the genetic material of humans who first arrived in Europe forty thousand years ago has seen drastic changes over the last ten thousand years. By analyzing D.N.A extracted from ancient bones, JOHANNES KRAUSE traces back the genetic ancestry of human beings, especially those living in Europe today. He explains in this video that, using recently developed D.N.A sequencing technologies, the research proves that genetic shifts happened about eight thousand as well as five thousand years ago. These findings correlate with the knowledge of archeologists that cultural changes, such as changes in subsistence strategies, occurred at the same time due to migration. The research presented shows that cultural changes and genetic changes sometimes went hand in hand.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10318Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology was founded in 1997. The institute's aim is to investigate the history of humankind with the help of comparative analyses of different genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings.
Original Publication
Ancient Human Genomes Suggest Three Ancestral Populations for Present-day Europeans
Iosif Lazaridis
,Nick Patterson
,Alissa Mittnik
,Gabriel Renaud
,Swapan Mallick
,Karola Kirsanow
,Peter H. Sudmant
,Joshua G. Schraiber
,Sergi Castellano
,Mark Lipson
,Bonnie Berger
,Christos Economou
,Ruth Bollongino
,Qiaomei Fu
,Kirsten I. Bos
,Susanne Nordenfelt
,Heng Li
,Cesare de Filippo
,Kay Prüfer
,Susanna Sawyer
,Cosimo Posth
,Wolfgang Haak
,Fredrik Hallgren
,Elin Fornander
,Nadin Rohland
,Dominique Delsate
,Michael Francken
,Jean-Michel Guinet
,Joachim Wahl
,George Ayodo
,Hamza A. Babiker
,Graciela Bailliet
,Elena Balanovska
,Oleg Balanovsky
,Ramiro Barrantes
,Gabriel Bedoya
,Haim Ben‐Ami
,Judit Bene
,Fouad Berrada
,Cláudio M. Bravi
,Francesca Brisighelli
,George Busby
,Francesco Calı̀
,Mikhail Churnosov
,David E.C. Cole
,Daniel Corach
,Larissa D. Damba
,George van Driem
,Stanislav Dryomov
,Jean-Michel Dugoujon
,С.А. Федорова
,Irene Gallego Romero
,Marina Gubina
,Michael F. Hammer
,Brenna M. Henn
,Tor Hervig
,Uğur Hodoğlugil
,Aashish R. Jha
,Sena Karachanak-Yankova
,Р. И. Хусайнова
,Э. К. Хуснутдинова
,Rick A. Kittles
,Toomas Kivisild
,William Klitz
,Vaidutis Kučinskas
,Alena Kushniarevich
,Leila Laredj
,Sergey Litvinov
,Theologos Loukidis
,Robert W. Mahley
,Béla Melegh
,Ene Metspalu
,Julio Molina
,Joanna L. Mountain
,Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi
,Desislava Nesheva
,Thomas Nyambo
,L. P. Osipova
,Jüri Parik
,Федор Алексеевич Платонов
,Olga L. Posukh
,Valentino Romano
,Francisco Rothhammer
,Igor Rudan
,Ruslan Ruizbakiev
,Hovhannes Sahakyan
,Antti Sajantila
,Antonio Salas
,Elena B. Starikovskaya
,Ayele Tarekegn
,Драга Тончева
,Shahlo Тurdikulova
,Ingrida Uktverytė
,Olga Utevska
,René Vásquez
,Mercedes Villena
,М. И. Воевода
,Cheryl A. Winkler
,Levon Yepiskoposyan
,Pierre Zalloua
,Tatijana Zemunik
,Alan Cooper
,Cristian Capelli
,Mark Thomas
,Andrés Ruiz‐Linares
,Sarah A. Tishkoff
,Lalji Singh
,Kumarasamy Thangaraj
,Richard Villems
,David Comas
,R. I. Sukernik
,Mait Metspalu
,Matthias Meyer
,Evan E. Eichler
,Joachim Bürger
,Montgomery Slatkin
,Svante Pääbo
,Janet Kelso
,David Reich
,Johannes Krause
Published in 2014