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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups
Another paper co-authored by people from the Jakobsson Lab has been published in Nature: Breton, G., Barham, L., Mudenda, G., Soodyall, H., Schlebusch, C. M., & Jakobsson, M. (2024). BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups. Nature communications, 15(1), 7307. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50733-y Abstract Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African…
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Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography
Carro is one of the main co-authors of the paper in Nature Communications: Alves, I., Giemza, J., Blum, M. G., Bernhardsson, C., Chatel, S., Karakachoff, M., … & Dina, C. (2024). Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51087-1 Abstract The demographical history of France remains…
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Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
Magdalena, Mattias and Helena are contributors to the paper: Seersholm, F. V., Sjögren, K. G., Koelman, J., Blank, M., Svensson, E. M., Staring, J., … & Sikora, M. (2024). Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature, 632(8023), 114-121. Abstract In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. bp), populations across large parts of…
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Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans
Bergfeldt, N., Kırdök, E., Oskolkov, N., Mirabello, C., Unneberg, P., Malmström, H., … & Götherström, A. (2024). Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 5630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56096-0 Abstract With the Neolithic transition, human lifestyle shifted from hunting and gathering to farming. This change altered subsistence patterns, cultural expression, and population structures as shown by…
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Transformation of the Scandinavian hunter-fisher-gatherer population throughout the Mesolithic
Several researchers from the Lab were involved in writing this article, which is part of Natalija Kashuba’s doctoral thesis. Kashuba, N., Bernhardsson, C., Boethius, A., Fraser, M., Günther, T., Götherström, A., … & Jakobsson, M. (2024). Transformation of the Scandinavian hunter-fisher-gatherer population throughout the Mesolithic. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1842112 Paper summary A joint archaeogenetic perspective integrates diverse lines…
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Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France
A new article on exogamic practices of hunter-gatherers, by Simões et al. (2024) was published in PNAS, Anthropology. Significance Since the early Holocene, western and central Europe was inhabited by a genetically distinct group of hunter-gatherers. We generated different types of biomolecular data, including deep coverage complete genome sequencing, from human skeletal remains buried in…