@article {309667, title = {Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years}, journal = {Science}, volume = {346}, year = {2014}, pages = {1113{\textendash}1118}, abstract = {

The origin of contemporary Europeans remains contentious. We obtained a genome sequence from Kostenki 14 in European Russia dating from 38,700 to 36,200 years ago, one of the oldest fossils of anatomically modern humans from Europe. We find that Kostenki 14 shares a close ancestry with the 24,000-year-old Mal{\textquoteright}ta boy from central Siberia, European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, some contemporary western Siberians, and many Europeans, but not eastern Asians. Additionally, the Kostenki 14 genome shows evidence of shared ancestry with a population basal to all Eurasians that also relates to later European Neolithic farmers. We find that Kostenki 14 contains more Neandertal DNA that is contained in longer tracts than present Europeans. Our findings reveal the timing of divergence of western Eurasians and East Asians to be more than 36,200 years ago and that European genomic structure today dates back to the Upper Paleolithic and derives from a metapopulation that at times stretched from Europe to central Asia. Studies of ancient humans help us understand the movement and evolution of modern populations of humans. Seguin-Orlando et al. present the genome of an ancient individual, K14, from northern Russia who lived over 36,000 years ago. K14 is more similar to west Eurasians and Europeans than to east Asians, indicating that these populations had already diverged. Science, this issue p. 1113

}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.aaa0114}, url = {http://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6213/1113}, author = {Seguin-Orlando, Andaine and Korneliussen, Thorfinn S. and Sikora, Martin and Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo and Manica, Andrea and Moltke, Ida and Albrechtsen, Anders and Ko, Amy and Margaryan, Ashot and Moiseyev, Vyacheslav and Goebel, Ted and Westaway, Michael and Lambert, David and Khartanovich, Valeri and Wall, Jeffrey D. and Nigst, Philip R. and Foley, Robert A. and Lahr, Marta Miraz{\'o}n and Nielsen, Rasmus and Orlando, Ludovic and Willerslev, Eske} }