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

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK; Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Street 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany. Electronic address: eleanor.scerri@rlaha.ox.ac.uk.
• ² Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, and University College London (UCL) Genetics Institute, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
• ³ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK; Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada.
• ⁶ Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK.
• ⁸ School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK; Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Street 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
• ⁹ Center for Climate Physics, Institute for Basic Science, Busan, South Korea; Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea.
• ¹⁰ Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
• ¹¹ 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; Senter for Fremragende Forskning (SFF) Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Øysteinsgate 3, Postboks 7805, 5020, Bergen, Norway.
• ¹² Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
• ¹³ Geography, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK.
• ¹⁴ Department of Anthropology, Center for Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, The George Washington University, 2110 G Street North West, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
• ¹⁶ Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Anthropology and the Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA.
• ¹⁸ School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK.
• ¹⁹ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9 West, Palisades, NY 10964-1000, USA.
• ²⁰ Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Street 10, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
• ²¹ Department of Anthropology, Emory University, 1557 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
• ²² Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK.
• ²³ 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; Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, P-2780-156, Oeiras, Portugal.