| Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans I Lazaridis, N Patterson, A Mittnik, G Renaud, S Mallick, PH Sudmant, ... Nature 513 (7518), 409-13, 2014 | 1028 | 2014 |
| Ancient DNA from the first European farmers in 7500-year-old Neolithic sites W Haak, P Forster, B Bramanti, S Matsumura, G Brandt, M Tänzer, ... Science 310 (5750), 1016-1018, 2005 | 600 | 2005 |
| Genetic discontinuity between local hunter-gatherers and central Europe’s first farmers B Bramanti, MG Thomas, W Haak, M Unterländer, P Jores, K Tambets, ... science 326 (5949), 137-140, 2009 | 570 | 2009 |
| The origins of lactase persistence in Europe Y Itan, A Powell, MA Beaumont, J Burger, MG Thomas PLoS Comput Biol 5 (8), e1000491, 2009 | 538 | 2009 |
| Absence of the lactase-persistence-associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans J Burger, M Kirchner, B Bramanti, W Haak, MG Thomas Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (10), 3736-3741, 2007 | 496 | 2007 |
| A revised timescale for human evolution based on ancient mitochondrial genomes Q Fu, A Mittnik, PLF Johnson, K Bos, M Lari, R Bollongino, C Sun, ... Current biology 23 (7), 553-559, 2013 | 491 | 2013 |
| Evolution of lactase persistence: an example of human niche construction P Gerbault, A Liebert, Y Itan, A Powell, M Currat, J Burger, DM Swallow, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366 …, 2011 | 359 | 2011 |
| Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans Z Hofmanová, S Kreutzer, G Hellenthal, C Sell, Y Diekmann, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (25), 6886-6891, 2016 | 325 | 2016 |
| DNA preservation: a microsatellite-DNA study on ancient skeletal remains J Burger, S Hummel, B Herrmann, W Henke Electrophoresis 20, 1722-1728, 1999 | 325 | 1999 |
| Mitochondrial DNA analysis shows a Near Eastern Neolithic origin for domestic cattle and no indication of domestication of European aurochs CJ Edwards, R Bollongino, A Scheu, A Chamberlain, A Tresset, JD Vigne, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1616), 1377-1385, 2007 | 280 | 2007 |
| Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y S Wilde, A Timpson, K Kirsanow, E Kaiser, M Kayser, M Unterländer, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (13), 4832-4837, 2014 | 234 | 2014 |
| Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates F Welker, MJ Collins, JA Thomas, M Wadsley, S Brace, E Cappellini, ... Nature 522 (7554), 81-84, 2015 | 226 | 2015 |
| A population genetics view of animal domestication G Larson, J Burger Trends in Genetics 29 (4), 197-205, 2013 | 226 | 2013 |
| Modern taurine cattle descended from small number of Near-Eastern founders R Bollongino, J Burger, A Powell, M Mashkour, JD Vigne, MG Thomas Molecular biology and evolution 29 (9), 2101-2104, 2012 | 219 | 2012 |
| Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity R Barnett, B Shapiro, IAN Barnes, SYW Ho, J Burger, N Yamaguchi, ... Molecular ecology 18 (8), 1668-1677, 2009 | 213 | 2009 |
| Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity R Barnett, B Shapiro, IAN Barnes, SYW Ho, J Burger, N Yamaguchi, ... Molecular ecology 18 (8), 1668-1677, 2009 | 213 | 2009 |
| Molecular phylogeny of the extinct cave lion Panthera leo spelaea J Burger, W Rosendahl, O Loreille, H Hemmer, T Eriksson, A Götherström, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 30 (3), 841-849, 2004 | 204 | 2004 |
| 2000 years of parallel societies in Stone Age Central Europe R Bollongino, O Nehlich, MP Richards, J Orschiedt, MG Thomas, C Sell, ... Science 342 (6157), 479-481, 2013 | 201 | 2013 |
| Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers M Lipson, A Szécsényi-Nagy, S Mallick, A Pósa, B Stégmár, V Keerl, ... Nature 551 (7680), 368-372, 2017 | 190 | 2017 |
| Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent F Broushaki, MG Thomas, V Link, S López, L van Dorp, K Kirsanow, ... Science 353 (6298), 499-503, 2016 | 181 | 2016 |
Mark G ThomasProfessor of Evolutionary Genetics, University College LondonVerified email at ucl.ac.uk
