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Read more at: Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years
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Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years

25 August 2021

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...


Read more at: Human colonisation of the Americas: a tale of bacteria
Helicobacter pylori. Credit: Penn state on Flickr. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Human colonisation of the Americas: a tale of bacteria

23 June 2021

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...


Read more at: The impact of climate on the Neolithic expansion in Europe
Betti et al. 2020: Major axes of expansion of the Neolithic transition (slowdown shown in black), superimposed on a map of growing degree days at 5,500 BCE. From the paper

The impact of climate on the Neolithic expansion in Europe

7 July 2020

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...


Read more at: 50,000 years of bird migrations
Barnacle Geese flock (Branta leucopsis) flying in formation during autum migration. Credits: Thermos on Wikimedia commons

50,000 years of bird migrations

21 February 2020

Marius, Robert and Andrea just published a new paper in Nature Communications reconstructing bird migrations through the climatic fluctuations that characterised the last 50,000 years. Marius Somveille, Martin Wikelski, Robert M. Beyer, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Andrea Manica, Walter Jetz (2020) Simulation-based reconstruction...


Read more at: Gibraltar crossing during the Bronze Age
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...