Abstract Bibliometrics offers powerful means of visualising and understanding trends within research domains. We here present a first exploratory bibliometric analysis cultural evolutionary theory attendant methods as applied specifically archaeology across the last four decades (1981–2021). Bibliographic coupling network shows that there exists broadly successive series author clusters making ...

Phylogenetics has a long history, with many contributions to the field actually predating Darwin. Genomics, in contrast, is barely a decade old. While these two fields may be disparate in their ages, each has much to contribute to the further development of the other. Phylogenetics provides a rich source of methodologies able to facilitate and enhance genomic research. Genome structure and func...

A number of recent articles have appeared on the hominin Denisova fossil remains. Many them focus attempts to produce DNA sequences from extracted samples. Often these project mitochondrial (mtDNA) fossils a Neandertals and Denisovans in an attempt understand evolution Middle Pleistocene human ancestors. These introduce problems interpretation speciation hominins. One concerns degradation ancie...