I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
Really cool study looking at how behaviour precedes morphological change across taxa - and implications for human evolution 💀🧪 massive congrats to all the authors, including @vivek123.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Very proud of my Master's student, Kim Hofmann, who was awarded the 500€ Rudolf Virchow Prize for her outstanding thesis! The prize was presented by Prof. Raiko Krauss, chairman of the Berlin Society for #Anthropology, #Ethnology, and #Prehistory. Congratulations, Kim!
An amazing study by brilliant colleagues and dear friends. Give it a read!
@hlusko.bsky.social @mpilloud.bsky.social @mmartinont.bsky.social @paleomariomm.bsky.social @cenieh.bsky.social @sgn.one @harvatilab.bsky.social picture from: https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/cenieh-develops-dental-morphological-database
Honoured to serve on the Advisory Committee for the DeMoDa project at @cenieh.bsky.social this week, powered by @hlusko.bsky.social’s ERC project Tied2Teeth – together with eight fellow experts in dental anthropology.
www.cenieh.es/en/press/new...
🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀
Truly honored to have received this award - thank you so much! 🥳 It was a pleasure meeting so many new colleagues and friends at #HumanEvo25 ! @martamlahr.bsky.social @lquintanamurci.bsky.social @aliceleplongeon.bsky.social @cschlebu.bsky.social
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social
Exploring human migrations & demographic change resulting from environ. change.
Applying new Pheno-ABC modelling method to skeletal phenotypes 🦷 Results show significant population migration patterns beginning ~47kya, changing ~28kya and again after ~14kya.
#HumanEvo25
Skeletal remains found in the central chamber of mount 4 from the Gießübel-Talhau necropolis in Herbertingen-Hundersingen. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395
Ventrolateral and dorsomedial side of the left pelvic bone with highlighted defect. The wound channel is red, while the bone spalling is green. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395
CT-scan of the left pelvic bone. The detail shows a cross section through the ischial bone. The segmented wound channel is highlighted in red, while the funnel shaped bone spalling on the dorsomedial side is highlighted in green. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3395
Ouch! This Celtic warrior took an arrow to the butt 🏹 But thanks to some surprisingly advanced ancient medics, he survived! A peek into healthcare 2,500 years ago: doi.org/10.1002/oa.3...
#Archaeology
#Anthropology
This week, I presented our research on skeletal trauma prevalence estimation at the Meeting of the Society for Anthropology in Kiel #bioanthropology #skeletaltrauma #paleopathology
Our 2024 OA paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415..., co-authored by @hannesrathmann.bsky.social & @matteosanton.bsky.social
Just wrapped up the 15th International Meeting of the Society for Anthropology with a wonderful visit to the #Haithabu Viking Museum. Many thanks to Katharina Fuchs for organizing this interesting conference, where I met many new colleagues and friends.
Visited the stunning #HolleyShelter site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Super interesting tour by the excavator Gregor Bader
Know a colleague who has made a novel research contribution to dental anthropology? Nominate them for the 2025 Innovation in Dental Anthropology Award! Deadline is March 10. More info here: www.dentalanthropology.org/innovation
🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
A circular phylogenetic tree displaying the protein annotation patterns across 160 Anatidae (waterfowl) genomes. The tree branches radiate from the center, with each tip representing a different species. The outer ring consists of colored dots representing 13 different proteins, with black dots indicating >70% complete sequences, pink dots showing <70% complete sequences, and white dots showing no annotation. The samples are grouped and colored by genus, with major genera like Aythya, Spatula, Mergus, Chloephaga, Tadorna, and MelanitaSomateria labeled. Below the tree, a legend shows sequence counts and mean coverage percentages for each protein, ranging from 81-168 sequences and 79.9%-99.9% coverage. A node score legend indicates bootstrap support values using different shades of grey."
An important new paper by @beademarch.bsky.social and her team challenges how we use ancient proteins to study the past.
Analysis of 1,832 sequences from waterfowl (ducks & geese) reveals why palaeoproteomics isn't the simple solution we hoped for...
👇🧵 1/4
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Had such an amazing and inspiring time at the HEIRS Opening Symposium at ICArEHB in Faro (@icarehb.bsky.social). Don’t miss out on their new exciting funding opportunities for synthesis projects in human evolution:[
heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
Interesting read: The skeleton from the Octagon at Ephesos isn't Cleopatra's sister Arsinoë after all. It's a Roman boy with growth disorders.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
1/ #NewPaperAlert: Thrilled to finally share our new paper on #Fumane Cave after a long and time-consuming research process! 🏺
#Archaeology #Anthropology #Paleolithic #StoneTools #HumanEvolution #FlintFriday #FossilFriday
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.
Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.
Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to share my latest work with archaeologist @manuelwill.bsky.social on lithic flake variability at the Middle Stone Age site of Sibhudu, South Africa. As a bioanthropologist, this was my first non-bone paper, and I loved the interdisciplinary journey!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Science reporting on the mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution, highlighting some of the problems with commercial scientific publishing.
OA PaleoAnthropology journal (www.paleoanthropology.org) highlighted among JHE's successors
#openaccess #humanevolution
Can we use mere stone flakes to track cultural change?
@hannesrathmann.bsky.social and I test this with simple flake attributes & a newly developed statistical method! All data, methods and code are #openaccess
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#archaeology #statistics #openscience
Feedback welcome!
Let’s make 'thinking time' for scientists a year-round habit, not just a luxury of the Christmas holiday season. 🧠🎄
Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History.
🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience
A great new #anthropology read in @currentbiology.bsky.social for anyone interested in human dental morphology and variation: 🦷
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The study identifies novel genetic variants influencing tooth crown dimensions, some of which were introgressed from Neanderthals.
Burial mound at Hochdorf-Eberdingen in Southwest Germany (image courtesy: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege im Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart; O. Braasch)
3D reconstruction of the burial chamber from Eberdingen-Hochdorf (image courtesy: Landesmuseum Württemberg, FaberCourtial; Thomas Hoppe)
It was a pleasure to be part of this June 2024 study on ancient #Celts of the Hallstatt and La Tène cultures. Using #archaeology, #DNA, #isotopes, and #anthropology, we found that status and power were inherited along maternal lines. Congrats to J. Gretzinger and team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What an incredible line-up! Truly honored to have my name included among so many outstanding researchers. 🙌✨ See you there!
The first Biological Anthropologists Starter Pack has reached its limit! I've created a second starter pack. Let me know if you'd like to be added! 🧬📚 #BioAnthro #Anthro go.bsky.app/DMNUzHV
A new Bluesky starter pack listing biological anthropologists. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/CnJLf95
