Category: News
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Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant
A new article by Luciana Simões and others from the Jakobsson Lab is published in Nature. Abstract In northwestern Africa, […]
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New grant from the Swedish Research Council
Mattias Jakobsson received funds to start a new project, A genetic model for the evolution of H. sapiens, from 1 […]
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Multidisciplinary investigation reveals an individual of West African origin buried in a Portuguese Mesolithic shell midden four centuries ago
A multidisciplinary approach to an old burial site reveals new secrets in the human past. The article, by Peyroteo Stjerna […]
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Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years
An article in PNAS described as the largest and most comprehensive DNA-mapping study of the Philippines, by Larena et al. […]
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The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by the Battle Axe culture herders
A study by Coutinho et al. (2020) combines archaeological and genetic information to understand better Battle Axe cultural influences discovered […]
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Where do the Scandinavians come from?
Have you ever wondered where Scandinavians came from? Watch a new video from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation about our work […]
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Mattias Jakobsson appointed a Wallenberg Scholar, 2019-24
“The Wallenberg Scholar grant gives me the freedom and the economic means to take on high-risk projects. It really is […]
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The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon
Our study on the Battle Axe Culture by Helena Malmström with others (2019) is published in the Proceedings of the […]
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Health change with the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers
Mattias Jakobsson gave a short interview (video on Meta account Evolutionen och du – in Swedish) about the health consequences associated […]
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A new grant from RJ
On October 17th, 2019 Magdalena Fraser received a 3 year research grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for the project “Gotland in the […]