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Hélios Delbrassine

@heliosdlbs.bsky.social
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PhD student at the University of Padua, using genetics-based demographic inferences to investigate cultural change and diversity 🧬

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SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution @smbegeneculture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Group picture at the SMBE satellite meeting - Campus of Architecture, University of Cagliari
Group picture at the SMBE satellite meeting - Campus of Architecture, University of Cagliari
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
two talks from our lab at the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution! i'll be talking about alcohol-metabolism-related regions, selection signals and climate. 👀 looking forward to it!
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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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No evidence for climate-driven fragmentation of Neanderthal habitats prior to their extinction - Communications Earth & Environment
“Neanderthal habitats remained spatially extensive and connected throughout the Late Pleistocene in western Europe, as shown by analysis using paleoenvironmental data and ensemble species distribution...
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The south Congo Basin was critical to Bantu settlement of south central Africa www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Stephan Schiffels @stschiff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).
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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
3 postdoc open positions in our lab on a project developing new AI methods to integrate genetics and ecological data to predict the impact of global change on species - see below
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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We’re looking for a Statistical Geneticist to join our team at @humantechnopole.bsky.social. The role offers the opportunity to work across a wide range of projects, supporting research groups throughout Human Technopole while developing and implementing new statistical methods tinyurl.com/44uyt8u2
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Statistical Geneticist
Statistical Geneticist
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Super excited & honoured to announce that my on-going project "45,000 years of changes in ancestry profiles and environmental conditions as shaping forces of Homo sapiens demography worldwide" has been selected for a short talk at the upcoming #EESHuman conference in Heidelberg! See you all there!
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Wonderful preprint by Miccolis et al! "...the first comprehensive review of threat status and policy inclusion of Italian biodiversity, encompassing animals, plants, fungi, lichens, and algae." A monstrous yet necessary work to start tackling the biodiversity crisis! 👏🏻
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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A 5-year PDRA position in "Statistical Modelling in Archaeology" is available @cam-archaeology.bsky.social as part of the FORAGER project. Deadline: 21/8/2026 tinyurl.com/muhcjkfy www.forager-erc.eu
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Research Assistant/Research Associate in Statistical Modelling in Archaeology (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant/Research Associate in Statistical Modelling in Archaeology (Fixed Term) in the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!
Job announcement of two positions at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt: postdoc (Macroevolution of European Literature) and PhD student (Computational Literary Studies). Successful candidates will be affiliated with the research group Cultural Evolution of the Arts.
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Mateja Hajdinjak @matejahajdi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our late Neandertal paper is officially out! 💀❤️🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41... It was years in the making, a tremendous feat spearheaded by our PhD student Alba Bossoms Mesa and co-led by @janetk.bsky.social and @benmpeter.bsky.social
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Such an exciting preliminary program that I feel super honoured to be a part of! Don't forget to register if you want to hear from a panel of wonderful anthropologists + me rambling about the evolution of alcohol metabolism 👀🧬🍻
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Aaron Ragsdale @apragsdale.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I’m looking to hire one or two postdocs - possible projects include pop gen theory, methods development, and human evolutionary inference. Please share, and email if you are interested. More info: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
After a month in Leipzig at the MPI EvAn, 10 days in Belgium, an intense week of CES in Rabat, I have finally got back to Padua! (And, as per the last picture, immediately took my bike to Venice, getting caught in a storm and much mud... but making it to Ithaca)
Set of 4 pictures with: a Cervidae in a park, two pictures of a sunset on a lake and a close-up of a duckPicture of myself dressed up and losing my balance on the bench of a bar in BelgiumSet of 4 pictures of the archaeological ruins of Volubilis, in MoroccoSelfie of me smiling a lot by the lagoon and pointing at a shadow far off the distance that is none other than Venice
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CesarFortesLima @cesarforteslima.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I'm so thrilled to be one of the Guest Editors of the new Nature Portfolio Collection on "𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣". This cross-journal collection involves publications in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, and 𝘚𝘤𝘪 𝘙𝘦𝘱. communities.springernature.com/posts/call-f...
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Call for papers: Human Admixture and Migration
This Collection invites submissions that use ancient or modern genetic data to explore human population history, admixture, and health. Submissions are encouraged by 28 February 2027.
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SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution @smbegeneculture.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Registration for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution is OPEN at this link geneculturecoevolution.com ✏️ DEADLINE 20th of June! Acceptance of short talks and posters and recipients of travel grants will be notified in two weeks.
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Gene-Culture Co-Evolution – Cagliari – Sardinia, 21-23 September 2026
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SCSchmidt @scschmidt.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
📢📢 At the ESTER-project we're looking for two #PostDocs and one #PhD student: ester-project.org/2026/05/01/the-es… 📢📢 If you are interested in demography, biological proxies, modelling and/or Bayesian statistics, have a look! Deadline is May 31st, this sunday! […]
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.
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Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What a week! I had a wonderful time at #CES2026 and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to hang out with such amazing people and researchers, learn about their work and present my own. 🧬 I leave Morocco the head full of ideas, the heart full of friendship (and the stomach full of tajine) 🙌🏻
I am standing in front of a large screen displaying the second slide of my presentation regarding the use of genetics in cultural evolution studiesSelfie with Francesco d'Errico, Ivan Colagè, Andra Meneganzin, Chiara Pertile and myselfSelfie with Andra Meneganzin, Willem Church and myself Picture of the UM6P campus in Rabat at the golden hour
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Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Speed-running between amazing sessions at #CES2026 and different perspectives on shared cultural evolutionary questions feels like my life now. Some highlights from day #2.
Willem Church on inferring social organization from genetic dataHelios Delbrassine on demography in cultural evolutionary studies and joint uses of cultural and genetic dataFrancesco D'Errico on the impact of environmental regimes on cultural transmission architecturesClaudio Tennie on succesful stone tool shaping without cultural models
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Enrico R. Crema @ercrema.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Very proud of my PhD student Alexes Mes for her first archaeology paper where she has developed a novel Bayesian spatiotemporal model for estimating arrival times using 14C dates authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution @smbegeneculture.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We invite you to submit an abstract for a session talk or poster presentation!
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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🏺🧪Preprint of 1039(!) whole ancient human genomes from Britain, mainly dating to 1st Millennium CE, representing the best part of 7 years of my life. Herculean effort by @marinasdsilva.bsky.social to get this over the line. 'Migration Period' is more migrationy than we could have possibly imagined.
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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The #HEIRS Group Synthesis Project 2026 call is now open! We invite #HumanEvolution scientists worldwide to apply for collaborative groups of 10–15 researchers, including at least one #ICArEHB member. Deadline: 18 June 2026. #ResearchSynthesis #OpenScience heirs.icarehb.com
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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
ICArCHEB in Portugal has put out a call for proposals for HEIRS (the Hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis). HEIRS supports collaborative research projects designed to produce syntheses of important issues in the field. A wonderful opportunity - link below heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
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Call for Group Synthesis Project 2026 – heirs
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
“The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature
Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Super excited about this new paper by Akbari et al.! A lot of food for thought, I'll definitely give it multiple reads 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia - Nature
Analysis of 15,836 ancient West Eurasian genomes reveals hundreds of instances of directional selection, showing that sustained changes in allele frequency were widespread, rather than being...
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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Graph transformer for ancient ancestry inference www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The Neanderthal population history and the introgression landscape inferred from the UK Biobank www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Check out our revamped preprint on partitioning the genomic journey to becoming Homo sapiens! Questioning whether modern and archaic humans should be considered as different species or populations. 👀🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
What a programme, I can't wait to see everyone there! 🙌🏻 and don't hesitate to come hang out in S32 on Tuesday if you're interested in bridging the gap between population genetics and cultural evolution 👀
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2026
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-unc…
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
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Emily Hallinan @eshallinan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📣 New paper #2: The SASSI open dataset is a comprehensive spatial, chronological and contextual database of southern African ESA, MSA and LSA sites, providing a FAIR data resource for comparison and synthesis @icarehb.bsky.social openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10....
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The Southern African Stone Age Site Index (SASSI): A Spatial, Chronological and Contextual Resource for Archaeological Research | Journal of Open Archaeology Data
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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼 Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory. 📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026 🔗 Link: shorturl.fm/EXRxc Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄
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SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution @smbegeneculture.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
SAVE THE DATE! SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity 🌍 University of Cagliari, Italy - Abstract submission and travel grants deadline: 30 April - Registration opening soon - Conference dates: 21-23 September 2026
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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The Association of Greek Archaeologists has published an open letter withdrawing its participation from the EAA Athens advisory committee 🍉 archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...
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Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists - Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων
Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists Κατόπιν της ομόφωνης απόφασης των μελών του…
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Institut Jacques Monod @ijmonod.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
#JobOffer 💼 Postdoc in human evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics (M/F) 📆 May 1st 2026 📍 Institut Jacques Monod / Peyrégne Lab 🔗 Apply on the CNRS job portal before January 9th emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published! We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes. Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes - Nature
The genomes of 28 ancient southern African individuals dated to between 10,200 and 150 years before present offer insights into the evolution of Homo sapiens.
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Isabelle Crevecoeur @isabellecrevecoeur.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
‼️📢 Neandertal as prey‼️ We demonstrated selective cannibalism behavior at the end of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern Europe #Neandertal #Prehistory #Cannibalism #MiddlePaleolithic #Goyet
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Chiara Barbieri @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...
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PACEA laboratory, Human evolution, Prehistory @pacea.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🧪 By our colleague F. d’Errico: the evolution of cultural transmission over the past 3.3 million years! Outcome of a 4-year project supported by the GPR Human Past and by I. Collage’s yearly visits as a Visiting Scholar shorturl.at/EEK2S @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years
Humans accumulate an ever-growing body of knowledge that far exceeds the capacity of any single individual or generation. Social learning and transmission are essential for this process. However, how ...
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VSC | Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum @vschpc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🧬 Over 1,000 years of history revealed from 3,000+ burials in Sint-Truiden. Researchers from KU Leuven & global partners uncovered genetic traces of migration, ancestry & the Black Death, powered by VSC 💻 📰 Read more www.vscentrum.be/post/discove... #HPC #DNA #Paleogenomics #Supercomputing
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Maarten Larmuseau @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Fantastic paper in @science.org today revealing: 1. strong selection for cold tolerance in Beringia 2. gene-flow across the strait around 5ky 3. diversification of S. American lineages into 4 groups ~ 14k-10ky 4. followed by population crash of >40-80%
Genetic ancestry and nucleotide diversity.
Colors represent genetic ancestries estimated by whole-genome sequencing data of contemporary human populations. Countries having no data remained empty. Circle size indicates the average nucleotide diversity of each population.
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Hélios Delbrassine @heliosdlbs.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Had the pleasure of being interviewed by Bas den Hond at @trouw.nl about our preprint on the diffusion of mythological motifs around the world! He did a truly marvellous job, read the full piece here: www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/w...
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Wat verhalen die de wereld over reizen over de mensheid onthullen
In mythen overal ter wereld zitten elementen die al met de mensheid meereizen zo lang die bestaat. Dat blijkt als je culturele en genetische informatie combineert.
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Marta Mirazon Lahr @martamlahr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@heliosdlbs.bsky.social had a poster about this work at #HumanEvo25 - fascinating study 🤩🤩🤩
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🚨 New call: FRB-CESAB & HEIRS (w/ PNDB) will fund 4 projects under the IdeaShare & DataShare schemes – incl. one on #Biodiversity & #HumanEvolution. 2 yrs funding | Interdisciplinary teams 🔗 www.icarehb.com/opportunity-... #ResearchFunding
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Opportunity for Biodiversity and Human Evolution Research - ICArEHB
The FRB-CESAB, in collaboration with HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), and supported by the PNDB, is launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: IdeaShare – Focuses o...
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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Denisovans are an extinct hominin group defined by ancient genomes of Middle to Late Pleistocene fossils from southern Siberia. Although genomic evidence suggests their widespread distribution through...
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