The analysis further indicated ties to Lapita populations that lived on Vanuatu and Tonga, suggesting Mariana Islanders may have helped settle Polynesia.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology researchers sequenced the nuclear genome isolated from 34,000-year-old skull bone uncovered in eastern Mongolia.
Science reports that Max Planck and Nature have struck a deal for affiliated authors to publish papers that are accessible to the public as well as access Nature-branded journals.
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have won this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work developing the CRISPR gene editing tool, according to Reuters.
A gene cluster inherited by modern humans from Neanderthals was recently identified as a risk locus for respiratory failure following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The New York Times reports that experts say President Joe Biden's goal of vaccinating 1 million people a day in the US in the next 100 days is too low a bar.
