Tag: human past
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UppTalk podcast with Mattias
Mattias Jakobsson is the guest at the next episode of the podcast series, UppTalk, organised by the Science and Technology […]
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Making Ancestors: The Politics of Death in Prehistoric Europe
The ERC-funded Ancestor Project (2020-25) was set to test alternative models of prehistoric inequality and pathways. It studies social relations […]
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Nobel Symposium 2025 “Palaeogenomics: charting the future of ancient DNA”
WHERE: Villa Aske (Bro) & StockholmWHEN: 26-30 May 2025 Organizers: Centre for Palaeogenetics, SciLifeLab Ancient DNA unit, Uppsala University Human Evolution […]
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Investigating population continuity and ghost admixture among ancient genomes
Co-authors from the Jakobsson Lab. The recent paper by McKenna, Bernhardsson, Waxham, Jakobsson and Sjödin (2024) is published in HPGG. […]
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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 […]
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Explaining human evolution: Ny populärvetenskaplig skrift berättar om människans evolution (Swedish)
Science says – about human evolution is the fifth in a series of popular science writings from the Royal Swedish […]
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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 […]