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• Mariam reports from the Philippines fieldwork, Nov-Dec 2025January 20, 2026
  Marian Omar Gómez travelled to the Philippines again in continuation of her PhD project. This time, she was joined for shorter periods by Armin Rassooli Tilehnovi (another PhD student at Human Evolution Program, Uppsala University), Max Larena, and Mattias Jakobsson. The three primary objectives were academic outreach, establishing a formal collaboration with the National Museum… Read more: Mariam reports from the Philippines fieldwork, Nov-Dec 2025
• Lets Tweap again: Economic and SNP retrieval optimisation for target enrichment of ancient DNAJanuary 19, 2026
  An updated preprint from the Jakobsson Lab: Saupe, T., Omar Gómez, M., Tan, E. J., Kabral, H., Scheib, C. L., Bernhardsson, C., & Jakobsson, M. (2026). Lets Tweap again: Economic and SNP retrieval optimisation for target enrichment of ancient DNA. bioRxiv, 2026-01. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.15.699081 Abstract Advancements in ancient DNA (aDNA) research have enabled the recovery of individual human… Read more: Lets Tweap again: Economic and SNP retrieval optimisation for target enrichment of ancient DNA
• 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

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