Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Predicting environmental and ecological drivers of human population structure
E. Pless, A. M. Eckburg, B. M. Henn
The paper develops a machine learning method to identify environmental and ecological drivers of human migration and genetic structure in eastern Africa, finding precipitation, temperature, altitude, and tsetse fly presence as key factors.
DOI 10.1093/molbev/msad094