Tag: hunter-gatherers
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Genetic relatedness mattered in the co-burial ritual of Neolithic hunter–gatherers
Mattila, T. M., Fraser, M., Koelman, J., Krzewińska, M., Ivarsson-Aalders, M., Götherström, A., Jakobsson, M., Storå, J., Günther, T., Wallin, P. & Malmström, H. (2026). Genetic relatedness mattered in the co-burial ritual of Neolithic hunter–gatherers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 293(2065). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0813 Abstract Kin relations among past societies can offer valuable information about…
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Luciana Simões receives VR International Postdoc grant
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…
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HLA diversity and signatures of selection in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer population in Southern Thailand
A new article co-authored by Mattias Jakobsson and Max Larena has been published in Immunogenetics. Schaschl, H., Herzog, T., Oberreiter, V. et al. HLA diversity and signatures of selection in the Maniq, a nomadic hunter-gatherer population in Southern Thailand. Immunogenetics 77, 23 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00251-025-01380-0 Abstract The Maniq, a small and isolated nomadic hunter-gatherer population from the rainforests of Southern…
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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups
Another paper co-authored by people from the Jakobsson Lab has been published in Nature: Breton, G., Barham, L., Mudenda, G., Soodyall, H., Schlebusch, C. M., & Jakobsson, M. (2024). BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups. Nature communications, 15(1), 7307. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50733-y Abstract Sub-equatorial Africa is today inhabited predominantly by Bantu-speaking groups of Western African…
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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 the early Holocene, western and central Europe was inhabited by a genetically distinct group of hunter-gatherers. We generated different types of biomolecular data, including deep coverage complete genome sequencing, from human skeletal remains buried in…
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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 with the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers.