{"id":10991,"date":"2014-09-19T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/?p=10991"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T11:10:47","slug":"under-the-covers-nature-revealed-18-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/2014\/09\/19\/under-the-covers-nature-revealed-18-september","title":{"rendered":"Under the covers (Nature revealed) – 18 September"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s cover shows the three ancestral populations for modern Europeans in an informative and beautifully crafted sketch.\u00a0Nature’s<\/a>\u00a0Art Director Kelly Krause talks us through the inspiration behind the cover.
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By sequencing and comparing the genomes of nine ancient Europeans that bridge the transition to agriculture in Europe between 8,000 and 7,000 years ago,\u00a0David Reich and colleagues<\/a>\u00a0show that most present-day Europeans derive from at least three highly differentiated populations \u2014 west European hunter-gatherers, ancient north Eurasians (related to Upper Palaeolithic Siberians) and early European farmers of mainly Near Eastern origin. They further propose that early European farmers had about 44% ancestry from a \u2018basal Eurasian\u2019 population that split before the diversification of other non-African lineages. These results raise interesting new questions, for instance that of where and when the Near Eastern farmers mixed with European hunter-gatherers to produce the early European farmers. Cover: Leonardo Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

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Three Ancestral Populations For Modern Europeans<\/p><\/div>\n

From the Art Desk:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Art Director, Kelly Krause, explains:<\/p>\n

“The authors of the paper sent in several gorgeous cover submissions in different styles, from polished realistic drawings to a more sketched style. The loose sketch style won out, as I felt it beautifully expressed several themes: the outlined profiles give a hint of clarity to the past, based on the research, but speak to questions that remain; also, sketches give an impression of slight messiness that I thought worked well with the idea of a ‘melting pot’.<\/p>\n

“And the image is not just beautiful but informative, with the underlying map including a representation of data from the research.”<\/p>\n

For additional behind the scenes commentary each week, check out the\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0Art Team’s \u00a0Nature Graphics Tumblr<\/a>\u00a0and the previous\u00a0Under the Covers<\/a>\u00a0focusing on the Laniakea supercluster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s cover shows the three ancestral populations for modern Europeans in an informative and beautifully crafted sketch.\u00a0Nature\u2019s\u00a0Art Director Kelly Krause talks us through the inspiration behind the cover. Caption:  … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,27,161,167,19],"tags":[165,171,163],"class_list":["post-10991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-happenings","category-events","category-featured","category-nature-covers","category-nature-graphics","category-science-communication-and-outreach","tag-art","tag-graphics","tag-nature-covers-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/ofschemesandmemes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}