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Out today in Science Magazine, 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. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

👏👏 @arevsumer! Contains our IBD analysis led by Yilei Huang: Multiple really long 20cm++ IBD segments link the two record 45ky-old sequenced modern human sites Zlatý kůň (Czechia) and Ranis (Germany). Showing they are closely related - within few generations. 😮😮 (1/3)

This work about the severe African bottleneck hypothesis is now published on Genetics at: doi.org/10.1093/geneti…. More details can be found at our previous thread below:

The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology is pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Roberts Patrick Roberts will join its board of directors, heading the new Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanisation bit.ly/41SW7DI

Our work, which shows statistical issues with the previous claim of a severe ancient bottleneck in the ancestry of African populations, has been selected as a Featured article in Genetics Society of America doi.org/10.1093/geneti… Great work by Yun Deng 邓赟, co-advised by Rasmus Nielsen and me 1/2

"Ancient DNA reveals family ties" is named on of the top 10 Science Break-throughs in 2024 by Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…). Our work on early Celtic princely burials and their discovered close kinship gets mentioned, too!

Our Cell Genomics preview “Double or Nothing – Ancient Duplications in the Amylase Locus Drove Human Adaptation” covering Yilmaz F. (Feyza Yilmaz) et al., Science 2024 and Bolognini D. (Davide Bolognini) et al., Nature 2024 is now out. massilani-lab.com/new-publicatio…

Nice article in National Geographics (in German) on our findings of dynastic relationships among Celtic elite burials, featuring Angela Mötsch from my group: nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und…

Excellent book review on "The trouble with ancient DNA" by my colleague Kathrin Nägele: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'm thrilled that our new article was published today in AJHG. It was an excellent collaboration with Carina Schlebusch @cschlebu.bsky.social, Yoro Diallo, Vaclav Janousek, and Viktor Cerny. Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel #Africa #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg…

Call for #PhD students open! Apply by 14th of May to start your research career in #evolution #genetics in beautiful #Vienna among a fun international and interdisciplinary crowd of peers #evolVienna #bioinformatics #bigdata #Drosophila #adaptation #popgen please RT

Our #PhD students are excited to hear Stephan Schiffels speak about "Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern #genomes" tomorrow for our #PopGen Seminar series. Full schedule and streaming signup at popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Am 20. Juni ist es soweit: Das MPI-EVA Leipzig lädt zur Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften ein! 😊 Ab 18 Uhr erwarten Euch spannende Vorträge & eine bunte Vielfalt an Mitmachstationen rund um #Menschheitsgeschichte 🧬🧪 & #Primatenevolution. 🐒 Das Programm: eva.mpg.de/de/veranstaltu…

Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans MPI-EVA Leipzig