The grant of 4,050,000 SEK will cover three years of Luciana’s research in collaboration with Emilia Huerta-Sanchez at Trinity College Dublin and Tom van der Valk at the Natural History Museum in Stockholm.
Congratulations, Luciana!
The roles of selection and demography on the fate of human genetic ancestry
About 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals disappeared. More than 30,000 years later, Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers met the same fate. However, both groups left genetic traces in populations that migrated into Eurasia: Anatomically Modern Humans and Anatolian farmers, respectively.
This project will draw parallels between these decisive events in human history to investigate how population size and natural selection shaped the decline of Neanderthal and Eurasian Hunter-Gatherer lineages.