While the genetic history of Japan has been studied rather extensively in recent years, ancient remains from the neighboring Korean peninsula have remained almost completely unsampled until 2022. Luckily, Gelabert et al. (2022) and D-N Lee et al. (2022) brought an end to the complete drought of ancient Korean samples and featured newly sequenced ancient…
Tag: Haplogroup D
Tibeto-Burman expansions: high-altitude adaptation and Paleolithic legacy on the Tibetan Plateau
Humans have been living at extreme altitudes for a very long time. However, only a very small percentage of the planet’s population inhabit such places. Today, the largest communities of high-altitude dwellers reside on the Tibetan Plateau. These mountainous people are speakers of Tibeto-Burman languages which came to be spoken as a result of relatively…