Human evolution

Is now out in Nature Communications our new paper that estimates when, and along which geographic paths, expansions out of Africa would have been climatically feasible. Robert M. Beyer, Mario Krapp, Anders Eriksson, Andrea Manica (2021) Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years Nat Commun...

It just came out in Nature Communications our new paper studying how climate drove the evolution of body and brain size in the genus Homo during the last million years. Manuel Will, Mario Krapp, Jay T. Stock, Andrea Manica (2021) Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo Nature...

Andrea took part in a response to the very debated article recently published in Nature by Chan and colleagues claiming a Southern African origin of Homo sapiens based on present-day mitochondrial DNA data. Carina M. Schlebusch, Liisa Loog, Huw S. Groucutt, Turi King, Adam Rutherford, Chiara Barbieri, Guido Barbujani...

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...

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...