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Leonardo Iasi

@leonardoiasi.bsky.social
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Interested in prehistory, human evolution, population genetics and much more. Scientist @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Arev P. Sümer @arevsumer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Our new study with @benmpeter.bsky.social is now on biorxiv! Here we present a new computational tool which makes it possible to conduct population genetic analyses from very contaminated and very low quality archaic human genomes. (1/7)
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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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Chris Simms @chrisnsimms.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We have long known that early humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where did it happen and over what kind of time period? My latest for @newscientist.com reports on a new paper that finds it may have happened over a massive area 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2513...
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Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area
We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour was much more common than we first thought
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stephanepeyregne.bsky.social @stephanepeyregne.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷 Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs. Start May 2026 (flexible). Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc in human evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics (M/F)
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Janet Kelso @janetk.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry
Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage ...
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Benjamin Peter @benmpeter.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If you need more exciting news about Denisovans, check out our paper on Denisovan ancestry in modern humans through time, out today in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...! #Denisovan #ancientDNA
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An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry
Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage…
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Sandra Oliveira @sandra-oliveira.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!
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Elise Kerdoncuff @ekerdoncuff.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Check out our dive into 50,000 years of Indian genetic history!🇮🇳 🧬~2,700 genomes 🦴Neanderthal/Denisovan DNA 🌾Hunter-gatherer, Iranian farmer & Steppe ancestry 🩺Health-linked, population-specific variants @lauritsskov.bsky.social & Priya Moorjani #Genomics #India #HumanEvolution #PopulationGenetics
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Leonardo Iasi @leonardoiasi.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Excited to share our manuscript version of our publication on NIHMS: “Neandertal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans” published in @science.org‬. Here for everyone to read: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Neandertal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans
Gene flow from Neandertals has shaped the genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generate a catalog of Neandertal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 yea...
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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Very excited to be part of two manuscripts which are now on biorxiv! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
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Laurits Skov @lauritsskov.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We ( @zeniabaek.bsky.social @moicoll.bsky.social and @asgerhobolth.bsky.social ) present a new cool way to visualize the optimal trade off for hmm decoding called Artemis plots! arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Leonardo Iasi @leonardoiasi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Check out this great video from @stefanmilo.bsky.social discussing recent finding on the date of Neanderthal introgression and what one might learn from this about the human migration out of Africa (feat. @arevsumer.bsky.social and me). www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXN-...
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Does Neanderthal DNA put a ceiling on Out of Africa?
YouTube video by Stefan Milo
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Leonardo Iasi @leonardoiasi.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans
Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...
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