Palaeo-population genomics: studying adaptation using ancient human DNA

该项目旨在将最先进的人口和定量遗传技术应用于一个强大的古代人类基因组新数据库——从狩猎采集者和早期农民一直到中世纪。这将用于建立人类基因适应时间的第一幅详细画像。该记录将记录人类历史上的主要社会文化转变，并揭示塑造现代人类遗传多样性和病理学的遗传和环境驱动因素。

This project aims to apply state-of-the-art population and quantitative genetic techniques to a powerful new database of ancient human genomes - spanning from hunter gatherers and early farmers through to the Middle Ages. This will be used to build the first detailed portrait of human genetic adaptation through time. This record will capture the major socio-cultural transitions in human history, and reveal the genetic and environmental drivers that have shaped modern human genetic diversity and pathology.