The traditional “out of Africa” model, which posits a dispersal of modern Homo sapiens across Eurasia as a single wave at ~60,000 years ago and the subsequent replacement of all indigenous populations, is in need of revision. Recent discoveries from archaeology, hominin paleontology, geochronology, genetics, and paleoenvironmental studies have contributed to a better understanding of the Late Pleistocene record in Asia. Important findings highlighted here include growing evidence for multiple dispersals predating 60,000 years ago in regions such as southern and eastern Asia. Modern humans moving into Asia met Neandertals, Denisovans, mid-Pleistocene Homo, and possibly H. floresiensis, with some degree of interbreeding occurring. These early human dispersals, which left at least some genetic traces in modern populations, indicate that later replacements were not wholesale. On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives doi:10.1126/science.aai9067 Bae, C. J. et al. 2017 Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia doi:10.1038/nature19792 Pagani, L. et al. 2016 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Support me via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianTomac Support me via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/SebastianTomac Support me via Swish: 0768169888 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDyjruBo6gw

Inuits have long been thought to have a significant contribution of east Asian DNA than other Native Americans. The origin of the Palaeo-Eskimo cultures, and their relationship to present-day Inuit, has been debated since they were first discovered. Competing theories have attributed the origins to offshoots of the populations that gave rise to Native American populations such as the Na-Dene, alternatively from the same source as the Inuits, or from still other sources entering the New World even later than both the Native American and Inuit ancestors. Ancient DNA studies answers these questions. Populating the Americas https://youtu.be/0wEFyi1yS3Y doi:10.1038/nature08835 Ancient human genome sequence of an extinct Palaeo-Eskimo doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1251-y Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America Support me via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianTomac Support me via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/SebastianTomac Support me via Swish: 0768169888 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEuTSUWoddk

We have seen is several of out paper reviews the importance of domestication, the development of farming and husbandry for the transformation of human populations. In this review we will start with an overview of the history of domestication. And then take a case study of barley and it’s spread through out Asia. doi:10.1073/pnas.1323964111 Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies doi:10.1371/journal. Barley heads east: Genetic analyses reveal routes of spread through diverse Eurasian landscapes Support me via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianTomac Support me via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/SebastianTomac Support me via Swish: 0768169888 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nt5GP0X3hQ

Variation in pigmentation among human populations may reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, where as pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Understanding the evolution of skin pigmentation may help us understand the population history of humans. Africa has extensive variation in skin pigmentation variants associated with dark pigmentation in Africans are identical by descent in South Asian and Australo-Melanesian populations. doi:10.1126/ science.aan8433 Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations Support me via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianTomac Support me via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/SebastianTomac Support me via Swish: 0768169888 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmlFylLRtRg