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• Luciana Simões receives VR International Postdoc grantDecember 16, 2025
  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… Read more: Luciana Simões receives VR International Postdoc grant
• Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of GotlandDecember 15, 2025
  New preprint by Magdalena Fraser, Federico Sanches-Quinto and several others from the Human Evolution Program team, and associated researchers is online now. Abstract Two archaeological cultural complexes coexisted on Gotland for over 500 years, between ∼3300 and 2800 calBCE, i.e. the Neolithic Funnelbeaker culture (FBC), and the Pitted ware culture (PWC). The ancestry of the… Read more: Ancestry, admixture, and pathogens in contemporaneous Neolithic farmers and foragers on the Island of Gotland
• Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in NatureDecember 4, 2025
  In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 and 150 years ago in southern Africa. The researchers also found genetic adaptations that likely shaped Homo sapiens… Read more: Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes, published in Nature
• A decade with the ancient Southern AfricansDecember 3, 2025
  The Jakobsson Lab team, in various constellations of researchers and with varying levels of engagement, has been working on genetic material first investigated more than a decade ago. Now, the first fruits of the work are collected. The major publication from this project is out now. Behind the scene impressions.
• Ideas that change the world.September 11, 2025
  Human Evolution was the focus of the latest episode (Season 6, Ep. 112) in the Nobel Prize Museum’s podcast series, Ideas that change the world, with Mattias Jakobsson. We all carry the entire history of humanity in our genes. When researchers examine the DNA of people living today and compare it with the genetic material… Read more: Ideas that change the world.

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