Cesare de Filippo

This paper presents a second high-quality Denisovan genome from a 200,000-year-old molar, revealing genetic contributions from multiple Denisovan groups and refining the Denisovan genetic lineage.

This paper identifies three genetically distinct bonobo populations with inferred geographic origins and estimates split times and effective population sizes, highlighting the need for conservation attention to substructure.

The paper reports a high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave, revealing genetic features unique to Neandertals and population structure insights.

The paper develops a method to reduce spurious alignments in ancient DNA sequences, increasing usable data from degraded samples and placing a third specimen on the Neandertal lineage.

The paper introduces NCD2, a statistic to detect long-term balancing selection in human genomes, finding it affects 0.6% of genomic windows and 0.8% of positions, with many novel targets.

The paper analyzes ancient genomes to show present-day Europeans derive from three populations: WHG, ANE, and EEF, with EEF having Basal Eurasian ancestry.