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Papers and preprints

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Recent work bearing on the deep history of narrative, migration and population.

January 2025 Worldwide patterns in mythology echo the human expansion out of Africa ↗ biorxiv.org · preprint
April 2025 Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara reveals ancestral North African lineage ↗ nature.com
May 2025 From North Asia to South America: tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing ↗ science.org
July 2025 Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian ↗ nature.com
July 2025 Ancient DNA reveals the prehistory of the Uralic and Yeniseian peoples ↗ nature.com
July 2025 The Northwest Coast of North America as the main route from Beringia to the New World: the evidence of mythology withdrawn — no link recorded
February 2025 The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans ↗ nature.com
November 2024 A genomic history of the North Pontic region from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age ↗ nature.com
December 2019 Systematic quantitative analyses reveal the folk-zoological knowledge embedded in folktales ↗ nature.com
Comparing constellations across cultures ↗ nature.com
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