The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...

“The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” 🧪

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

Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia - Nature Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instances of directional selection, showing that sustained changes in allele frequency were widespread, rather than being...

Super excited about this new paper by Akbari et al.! A lot of food for thought, I'll definitely give it multiple reads 🧬

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

Graph transformer for ancient ancestry inference www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

The Neanderthal population history and the introgression landscape inferred from the UK Biobank www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

Check out our revamped preprint on partitioning the genomic journey to becoming Homo sapiens!

Questioning whether modern and archaic humans should be considered as different species or populations. 👀🧬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What news!! I have adored your work so far, I cannot wait to see all the beautiful science your group will do in the future! Great news for the field indeed :)

What a programme, I can't wait to see everyone there! 🙌🏻

and don't hesitate to come hang out in S32 on Tuesday if you're interested in bridging the gap between population genetics and cultural evolution 👀

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncov...

📣 New paper #2: The SASSI open dataset is a comprehensive spatial, chronological and contextual database of southern African ESA, MSA and LSA sites, providing a FAIR data resource for comparison and synthesis
@icarehb.bsky.social
openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼

Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory.

📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026
🔗 Link:
shorturl.fm/EXRxc

Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄

SAVE THE DATE!
SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity
🌍 University of Cagliari, Italy
- Abstract submission and travel grants deadline: 30 April
- Registration opening soon
- Conference dates: 21-23 September 2026

Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists - Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists Κατόπιν της ομόφωνης απόφασης των μελών του…

The Association of Greek Archaeologists has published an open letter withdrawing its participation from the EAA Athens advisory committee 🍉
archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...

#JobOffer

💼 Postdoc in human evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics (M/F)
📆 May 1st 2026
📍 Institut Jacques Monod / Peyrégne Lab

🔗 Apply on the CNRS job portal before January 9th emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature The genomes of 28 ancient southern African individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.

Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published!
We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes.
Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity!

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

‼️📢 Neandertal as prey‼️
We demonstrated selective cannibalism behavior at the end of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern Europe

#Neandertal #Prehistory #Cannibalism #MiddlePaleolithic #Goyet

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years Humans accumulate an ever-growing body of knowledge that far exceeds the capacity of any single individual or generation. Social learning and transmission are essential for this process. However, how ...

🧪 By our colleague F. d’Errico: the evolution of cultural transmission over the past 3.3 million years! Outcome of a 4-year project supported by the GPR Human Past and by I. Collage’s yearly visits as a Visiting Scholar shorturl.at/EEK2S @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🧬 Over 1,000 years of history revealed from 3,000+ burials in Sint-Truiden.

Researchers from KU Leuven & global partners uncovered genetic traces of migration, ancestry & the Black Death, powered by VSC 💻

📰 Read more www.vscentrum.be/post/discove...

#HPC #DNA #Paleogenomics #Supercomputing

Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Genetic ancestry and nucleotide diversity. Colors represent genetic ancestries estimated by whole-genome sequencing data of contemporary human populations. Countries having no data remained empty. Circle size indicates the average nucleotide diversity of each population.

Fantastic paper in @science.org today revealing:
1. strong selection for cold tolerance in Beringia
2. gene-flow across the strait around 5ky
3. diversification of S. American lineages into 4 groups ~ 14k-10ky
4. followed by population crash of >40-80%

Wat verhalen die de wereld over reizen over de mensheid onthullen In mythen overal ter wereld zitten elementen die al met de mensheid meereizen zo lang die bestaat. Dat blijkt als je culturele en genetische informatie combineert.

Had the pleasure of being interviewed by Bas den Hond at @trouw.nl about our preprint on the diffusion of mythological motifs around the world!

He did a truly marvellous job, read the full piece here:

www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/w...

Thank you so much Marta! It was wonderful meeting you and everyone else - thanks for all the work & organization! :)

@heliosdlbs.bsky.social had a poster about this work at #HumanEvo25 - fascinating study 🤩🤩🤩

🚨 New call: FRB-CESAB & HEIRS (w/ PNDB) will fund 4 projects under the IdeaShare & DataShare schemes – incl. one on #Biodiversity & #HumanEvolution.
2 yrs funding | Interdisciplinary teams
🔗 www.icarehb.com/opportunity-...
#ResearchFunding

A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in
@science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist "I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

A Dataset on Linguistic Connectivity Across and Within Countries - Scientific Data Scientific Data - A Dataset on Linguistic Connectivity Across and Within Countries

This looks useful -- A Dataset on Linguistic Connectivity Across and Within Countries
#linguistics #languages
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Revealed: first DNA profiles of ancient people who roamed a lush Sahara The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population.

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population

https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV

front page of the article

Figure. 3 from the article showing products of the Quina system at the Longtan site

Figure 4 from the article showing features of Quina products compared to ordinary scrapers.

Figures showing the site location and stratigraphy

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China

Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

fascinating paper, congrats to all the authors!
the model they present is full of potential, great prospects indeed