% pubman genre = article @article{item_3399412, title = {{The genomic origins of the world{\textquoteright}s first farmers}}, author = {Marchi, Nina and Winkelbach, Laura and Schulz, Ilektra and Brami, Maxime and Hofmanov{\'a}, Zuzana and Bl{\"o}cher, Jens and Reyna-Blanco, Carlos S. and Diekmann, Yoan and Thi{\'e}ry, Alexandre and Kapopoulou, Adamandia and Link, Vivian and Piuz, Val{\'e}rie and Kreutzer, Susanne and Figarska, Sylwia M. and Ganiatsou, Elissavet and Pukaj, Albert and Struck, Travis J. and Gutenkunst, Ryan N. and Karul, Necmi and Gerritsen, Fokke and Pechtl, Joachim and Peters, Joris and Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea and Lenneis, Eva and Teschler-Nicola, Maria and Triantaphyllou, Sevasti and Stefanovi{\'c}, Sofija and Papageorgopoulou, Christina and Wegmann, Daniel and Burger, Joachim and Excoffier, Laurent}, language = {eng}, issn = {0092-8674}, doi = {10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.008}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Amsterdam}, year = {2022}, date = {2022-05-26}, abstract = {{The precise genetic origins of the first Neolithic farming populations in Europe and Southwest Asia, as well as the processes and the timing of their differentiation, remain largely unknown. Demogenomic modeling of high-quality ancient genomes reveals that the early farmers of Anatolia and Europe emerged from a multiphase mixing of a Southwest Asian population with a strongly bottlenecked western hunter-gatherer population after the last glacial maximum. Moreover, the ancestors of the first farmers of Europe and Anatolia went through a period of extreme genetic drift during their westward range expansion, contributing highly to their genetic distinctiveness. This modeling elucidates the demographic processes at the root of the Neolithic transition and leads to a spatial interpretation of the population history of Southwest Asia and Europe during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.}}, journal = {{Cell}}, volume = {185}, number = {11}, pages = {1842--1859.e13}, }