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Did Ancient Warming Push Societies Backward?
A climate signal survives better controls for ancestry and archaeological site
An archaeological site can compress several different worlds into a few metres of earth. A Mesolithic camp may sit below the remains of Neolithic farmers; a Bro...
Rome and the Northern Catch Up Reanalysed
A much larger European sample tests the Iron Age Italian lead and later northern convergence
Last July I published
Mixing Ancestries Does Not Instantly Make a Population
Why a child of Italian and Chinese parents can resemble a Hazara individual on an ancestry plot without reproducing the same genetic history.
A useful rule for reading ancestry plots is this: matching a population’s broad genetic position...
Do Climate and Geography Shape Personality in Europe?
Do latitude, longitude, winter temperature or rainfall best predict genetic scores for Extraversion across Europe?
The question behind the map
What Neanderthal DNA Left Behind
Neanderthals, Denisovans and how evolution reshaped their genetic legacy in living people
Modern humans did not simply replace every other human lineage they encountered. They mixed with them. The clearest genetic legacy of those encounter...
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I have worked in population genetics for the last ten years, besides chronobiology, evolutionary psychology, creativity, and behavioural genetics. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals
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