Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

• Scerri EML ^{1, 2},
• Thomas MG ³,
• Manica A ⁴,
• Gunz P ⁵,
• Stock JT ^{6, 7},
• Stringer C ⁸,
• Grove M ⁹,
• Groucutt HS ^{1, 10},
• Timmermann A ^{11, 12},
• Rightmire GP ¹³,
• d'Errico F ^{14, 15},
• Tryon CA ¹⁶,
• Drake NA ¹⁷,
• Brooks AS ¹⁸,
• Dennell RW ¹⁹,
• Durbin R ^{20, 21},
• Henn BM ²²,
• Lee-Thorp J ¹,
• deMenocal P ²³,
• Petraglia MD ¹⁰,
• Thompson JC ²⁴,
• Scally A ²⁰,
• Chikhi L ^{25, 26}

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK
• ² Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Street 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany. eleanor.scerri@rlaha.ox.ac.uk
• ³ Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, and University College London (UCL) Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
• ⁴ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
• ⁵ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
• ⁶ Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK
• ⁷ Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada
• ⁸ Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
• ⁹ Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK
• ¹⁰ Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Street 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany
• ¹¹ Center for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, South Korea
• ¹² Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
• ¹³ Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
• ¹⁴ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5199 PACEA (De la Préhistoire à l'actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie), Université de Bordeaux, Bâtiment B18, Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, CS 50023, F-33615 Pessac CEDEX, France
• ¹⁵ Senter for Fremragende Forskning (SFF) Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Øysteinsgate 3, Postboks 7805, 5020, Bergen, Norway
• ¹⁶ Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
• ¹⁷ Geography, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
• ¹⁸ Department of Anthropology, Center for Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, The George Washington University, 2110 G Street North West, Washington, DC 20052, USA
• ¹⁹ Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
• ²⁰ Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK
• ²¹ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
• ²² Department of Anthropology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA
• ²³ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9 West, Palisades, NY 10964-1000, USA
• ²⁴ Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
• ²⁵ Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS. 118 route de Narbonne, Bat 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
• ²⁶ Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, P-2780-156, Oeiras, Portugal

This work was supported by:

Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
GrantID: WT206194

Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
GrantID: 100719/Z/12/Z

Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
GrantID: WT207492

Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom
GrantID: 207492/Z/17/Z