Various Interesting Papers
Cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information for over 2000 human cultural groups
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Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage (April 2025)
Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian (July 2025)
A genomic history of the North Pontic Region from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age (November 2024)
The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans (February 2025)
From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing (May 2025)
The Northwest Coast of North America as the Main Route from Beringia to the New World: The Evidence of Mythology (July 2025) Withdrawn?
Worldwide patterns in mythology echo the human expansion out of Africa (Pre-print January 2025)
Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples (July 2025)
Comparing constellations across cultures
Systematic quantitative analyses reveal the folk-zoological knowledge embedded in folktales (December 2019)
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