Dating ancient human samples using the recombination clock
Priya Moorjani, Sriram Sankararaman, Qiaomei Fu, Molly Przeworski, Nick J Patterson, David E. Reich
This paper introduces a genetic method using the recombination clock to date ancient human samples, showing it provides reliable age estimates for non-African genomes with Neanderthal ancestry.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · May 2, 2016Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology