Humans

Cecilia and Andrea published a new paper in PNAS combining ethnographic, archaeological, genetic, and paleoclimatic data to model the dynamics of Central African hunter-gatherer populations over the past 120,000 years. Padilla-Iglesias et al. (2022) Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains...

Andrea took part in a paper just published in Scientific Reports in which they use paleoclimate to find out which habitats were inhabited during the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa. Lucy Timbrell, Matt Grove, Andrea Manica, Stephen Rucina, James Blinkhorn (2022) A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework...

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 is now out in Scientific data the paper describing our curated dataset of 35 whole-genome sequenced samples, previously published, together with the genetic pipeline used to process them. The link to download both the data and the pipeline is in the right column. Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Eppie R. Jones, Anahit...

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 paper just published in PNAS that, through the analysis of the genetic diversity in Helicobacter pylori , reconstructs the human peopling of Siberia and America. Yoshan Moodley, Andrea Brunelli, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrey Klyubin, Ayas S. Maady, William Tyne, Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramirez, Zhemin Zhou, Andrea...

Our group just published a new paper in Nature Human Behaviour . It analyses radiocarbon dates, palaeoclimatic reconstructions and ancient DNA to show how climate shaped the expansion of Neolithic farmers in Europe and their interaction with local hunter-gatherers. Lia Betti, Robert M. Beyer, Eppie R. Jones, Anders...

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 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...

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...