Becoming Human: What Ancient DNA Tells Us About Who We Are

Writing a commentary in the 50th-anniversary issue of Cell, Fu Qiaomei and E. Andrew Bennett, both of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explored the contribution of paleogenomics to our understanding of the evolution of modern humans.

Given her numerous contributions to the field of human evolution through the analysis of both archaic and early modern human genomes, Prof. Fu was invited by the journal Cell to write a commentary reviewing what we have learned about the evolution of modern human identity from ancient DNA.