Malaria shaped human spatial organization for the past 74 thousand years Malaria has shaped human habitat choice, exchange, and dispersal since the late Pleistocene in sub-Saharan Africa.

1/5 Well over three years of work and I’m thrilled to see it out today in Science Advances: the cover feature no less! Using an innovative pipeline, we show that malaria shaped the spatial organization of human groups in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 74,000 years.
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XXIV Congreso de la Sociedad española de Antropología Física Presentación     Durante los días 15-17 de julio de 2026, en la Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, se celebrará el XXIV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de An...

Last days for early-bird registration (until April 24)!
Join us this July in Madrid for the 2026 Congress of the Spanish Society of Physical Anthropology.

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How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

Nature reports on how researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history. 🏺 🧪

Very happy to share that our paper on Masripithecus is now published in @science.org

A new Early Miocene ape from Egypt that helps fill an important gap in ape evolution.

Proud to be part of the Sallam Lab team, MUVP, and the Egyptian team behind this discovery.

A shorthair domestic cat gazes upward.

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, according to a recent Science study.

The findings offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions.

Learn more on #RespectYourCatDay: https://scim.ag/41pkMy7

Adaptive admixture at ACKR1, the Duffy blood group locus, may have shaped Plasmodium vivax prevalence in Oman Genomic analyses of Omani blood donors reveal a high frequency of the FyES allele at the Duffy locus, accompanied by elevated African ancestry. These alleles were likely introduced via early African a...

🧬🦟 New from @ellenleffler.bsky.social & co!
📄Adaptive admixture at ACKR1, the Duffy blood group locus, may have shaped Plasmodium vivax prevalence in Oman

The HAAM summer school is always a fantastic online workshop on popgen analysis via aDNA. Check out the 2026 version!
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I wrote lectures about DE-EXTINCTION for my human evolution and anthropological genetics courses and have been really popular with students so I decided to turn it into a very long 🧵 I'll post everything as replies here but will try to break into bite size pieces and retweet as I go:

🧬 ESHG Webinar Series – Season 2, Episode 3

📅 25 March 2026 | 16:00 CET
🎤 Lili Milani, University of Tartu
📊 Pharmacogenomic studies in the Estonian Biobank

The webinar will take place via Zoom and is free to attend.

🔗 More information: www.eshg.org/webinarseries

@eshgyoung.bsky.social

Public anthropology at Wenner-Gren is a central value, part of the path to follow our north star: supporting anthropology worldwide. Read more about it on our site. wennergren.org/article/publ...

Reflections on the Human Genome Diversity Project: a conversation with Marcus W. Feldman, Henry T. Greely, and Mary-Claire King Abstract. The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) began in 1991 as an initiative to study genetic variation from human populations worldwide. In 2002, th

If you research or are simply interested in human genetic variation, ancient and modern, read my and Noah Rosenberg's latest in GENETICS academic.oup.com/genetics/art... 1/2

Assessing the potential of ancient protein sequences in the study of hominid evolution Abstract. Palaeoproteomic data can provide invaluable insights into hominid evolution over long timescales. Yet, the potential and limitations of ancient p

The final chapter of my PhD thesis, is finally published in GBE!
academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

You can also read the earlier recommendation by PCI in a nice little summary here: evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
#palaeoproteomics #phylogenetics

First Case of Hb City of Hope (HBB: c.208G > A) in Andalusia. A Molecular Update of β-Thalassemia in Southwestern Spain (Huelva Province) Beta-thalassemia, caused by mutations in the β-globin gene, is an important disease for both basic and translational research. This hemoglobinopathy is molecularly and clinically heterogeneous, and...

Happy to share our last study 🩸 🧬
"First Case of Hb City of Hope (HBB: c.208G > A) in Andalusia. A Molecular Update of β-Thalassemia in Southwestern Spain (Huelva Province)"
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UXNWZ...

Please join us next Thursday, 5th March at 13:00, for our next talk of the semester, given by Prof Katerina Douka!

If you would like to attend, register:
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More details below👇

We hope to see you there!

We hoped this would take 5 years, but in fact it took 14! Thanks to all co-authors, but particularly Mark Jobling who held it all together, and more. A proper magnum opus. Hope it is useful for those in the field or adjacent. Phew.

Demographic and genetic factors shape the epitope specificity of the human antibody repertoire against viruses - Nature Immunology Patin and colleagues present a mineable Resource database for identifying demographic and genetic factors that impact antiviral antibody repertoires in humans.

Happy to share our last study on how age, biological sex and genetics affect not only the extent of antibody responses against viruses but also the specific viral epitopes recognised. Thanks to Axel Olin @EtiennePatin @LabExMI @institutpasteur @cdf1530 @CNRS

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Update:
"Databases, Biobanks and International Consortia: Major Resources for Human Population Genomics and Biological Anthropology"
A full-text, read-only version 📖
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Databases, Biobanks and International Consortia: Major Resources for Human Population Genomics and Biological Anthropology The Human Genome Project, together with the subsequent advent of diverse repositories for storing, sharing, and analyzing biological data, represented a revolution in the way genetic research is cond...

Our last paper is out!
Omics resources through the lens of a population geneticist 🧬💻
In @evolutionaryanthro.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

We got dealt such a great deck of cards in the evolutionary game of life. Just imagine if cows had opposable thumbs. They’d be unstoppable.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage - Nature New hominin fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I (ThI-GH) in Casablanca, Morocco, dated to around 773 thousand years ago are similar in age to Homo antecessor, yet are morphologically distinct.

Hominin fossils discovered in Morocco, which have been dated to about 773,000 years ago, may be close ancestors of modern humans. The findings, published in Nature, provide insights into African populations before the earliest known Homo sapiens.🧪

Evolutionary Anthropology seminars Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

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🧬 The MOOC “Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics” starts on October 14th!

👉 bit.ly/4fw3Zje

💀🌍 Where do we come from? What was the migration history of our species? What role does the Neanderthal genome play in our genetic heritage? How has our species adapted to different environments?

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science:

1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I want to start a new global movement:
Meetless Monday - we encourages people to reduce their meeting activity by one day each week for personal health and the planet's well-being.

Mammoths in Mexico? Huge bone trove reveals giant beasts thrived in warmth, too Fossils found while building airport contain first mammoth DNA from tropical location

La historia de cómo secuenciamos los mamtus 🦣 más tropicales 🏝️ secuenciados al momento la pueden leer aquí 👇https://shorturl.at/KE6Ux Redactadó por el gran @rpocisv.bsky.social. Muchas gracias Rodrigo por cubrir con tanto entusiasmo la nota sobre nuestro trabajo.

Now in Open Access!
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Accepted manuscript 📃
'Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia' | Evolutionary Human Sciences

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