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Denisovan introgression left differential selection regimes in Humans and Neanderthals on the SLC30A9 gene

The paper uses ABC and machine learning to determine that the SLC30A9 rs1047626 polymorphism originated in Denisovans, introgressed into Neanderthals, and then into non-African humans, with differential selection pressures in different populations.

Enhancement of hidden Markov model analyses for improved inference of archaic introgression in modern humans

This paper improves HMM analyses for inferring archaic introgression in modern humans by introducing sampling methods and hybrid decoding, showing better accuracy in admixture estimates.

Four centuries of commercial whaling eroded 11,000 years of population stability in bowhead whales

This study uses fossil data and modeling to show that commercial whaling caused genetic diversity loss in bowhead whales, threatening their resilience to future climate change.

Trade-offs beget trade-offs: Causal analysis of mammalian population dynamics

This study uses phylogenetic path analysis to examine how life history traits affect population dynamics metrics like effective population size and density across mammalian species.

Extreme selective sweeps displaced archaic admixture across the human X chromosome around 50,000 years ago

The paper identifies extreme selective sweeps on the human X chromosome that displaced Neanderthal admixture around 50,000 years ago, suggesting a population without Neanderthal admixture contributed these haplotypes.