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Aereal view of Gibraltar. Source: Wikimedia commons

Gibraltar crossing during the Bronze Age

25 January 2019

Andrea published a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B that analyses ancient genomes finding evidence of migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula during the Bronze Age. G. González-Fortes, F. Tassi, E. Trucchi, K. Henneberger, J. L. A. Paijmans, D. Díez-del-Molino, H. Schroeder, R. R. Susca, C. Barroso-Ruíz...

A clownfish hides within an anemone. Photo by Stefan Andrews

The evolutionary forces helping Nemo find a home

29 November 2018

Andrea published a paper in Ecology Letters showing that predation drives the recurrent convergent evolution of fish‐anemone mutualisms. William E. Feeney, Rohan M. Brooker, Lane N. Johnston, James D. J. Gilbert, Marc Besson, David Lecchini, Danielle L. Dixson, Peter F. Cowman, Andrea Manica (2018) Predation drives...

Two different female pelvises from the paper.

Geographic structure in the shape of human birth canal

27 October 2018

Andrea published a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B analysing the variation worldwide in the shape of the birth canal and finding significant differences between populations living in different areas of the world. Betti and Manica (2018) Human variation in the shape of the birth canal is significant and...

Horses from Camargue (France) in summer 2013. Picture by Michela Leonardi

Late Quaternary horses in Eurasia in the face of climate and vegetation change

27 July 2018

Michela, Robert, Mario and Andrea published in Science Advances an article detailing the palaeoecology of the horse through the last 44 thousand years. Michela Leonardi, Francesco Boschin, Konstantinos Giampoudakis, Robert M. Beyer, Mario Krapp, Robin Bendrey, Robert Sommer, Paolo Boscato, Andrea Manica, David Nogues-Bravo...

© Yasmine Gateau/Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

African structure and human evolution

13 July 2018

Andrea contributed to an opinion piece discussing the importance of population structure in Africa for human evolution, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution . Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mark G. Thomas, Andrea Manica, Philipp Gunz, Jay T. Stock, Chris Stringer, Matt Grove, Huw S. Groucutt, Axel Timmermann, G. Philip...

Male goat. Photo by Watts on Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The origin of goat domestication

6 July 2018

The new paper on the origin of goat domestication by Pier and Andrea is now out in Science . Kevin G. Daly, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Victoria E. Mullin, Amelie Scheu, Valeria Mattiangeli, Matthew D. Teasdale, Andrew J. Hare, Joachim Burger, Marta Pereira Verdugo, Matthew J. Collins, Ron Kehati, Cevdet Merih Erek, Guy Bar-...

Gibraltar crossing during the Bronze Age

The evolutionary forces helping Nemo find a home

Geographic structure in the shape of human birth canal

Late Quaternary horses in Eurasia in the face of climate and vegetation change

African structure and human evolution

The origin of goat domestication

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