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.

• Klíčová slova
• Neolithic transition, ancient genomics, demogenomic modeling, demographic inference, demographic processes, human evolution, population admixture, upper Palaeolithic,
• MeSH
• dějiny starověku MeSH
• genetický drift MeSH
• genom * MeSH
• genomika MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• migrace lidstva MeSH
• mitochondriální DNA genetika   MeSH
• zemědělci * MeSH
• zemědělství MeSH
• Check Tag
• dějiny starověku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• historické články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Evropa MeSH
• Názvy látek
• mitochondriální DNA MeSH