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Quando il mondo parlava decine di migliaia di lingue

Secondo uno studio su Science, il numero delle lingue aumentò per gran parte dell’Olocene, prima di crollare negli ultimi millenni.

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In our new paper, Cueva La Capilla, an archaeological site in the Venezuelan Andes. A late offset of the Tocuyanoid tradition, which included defleshed human remains for a secondary burial, we describe a collection of plant materials arranged as offerings, and a surprising collection of maize... 🌽

Late Holocene Maize Diversity and Cultural Remains from the Northern Neotropics: The Site of Cueva La Capilla, Venezuelan Andes | Latin American Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Late Holocene Maize Diversity and Cultural Remains from the Northern Neotropics: The Site of Cueva La Capilla, Venezuelan Andes

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I have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

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Our preliminary program of talks is out!! 😎 sites.google.com/view/gene-cu... We accept registrations for online attendance until the 30th of June. You can register at geneculturecoevolution.com 🦩

Tucci Lab solved a cold case from Italian Renaissance, with secrets from the de' Medici family, and the history of malaria in central Italy. Very cool study!

Serena Tucci@serenat82.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very happy to see our study out today in iScience! Very grateful to work with our amazing collaborators! Ancient DNA analyses of remains of the Medici family (16th century) provide insights into the genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Registration for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution is OPEN at this link geneculturecoevolution.com ✏️ DEADLINE 20th of June! Acceptance of short talks and posters and recipients of travel grants will be notified in two weeks.

We invite you to submit an abstract for a session talk or poster presentation!

NEW PAPER! Another interesting angle from our interdisciplinary work on global linguistic and genetic data -with the GeLaTo database!🍦🧬. We used measures of homozygosity to track genetically isolated regions, and proved that this factor is the stronger predictor of high linguistic entropy.

NCCR Evolving Language@nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💬 Languages are diverse: thousands are spoken worldwide, and they differ widely in the structures they use. 🧬 Human DNA variation preserves the history of populations and individuals. 🤝 Are these two dimensions of human diversity related? 🔗 evolvinglanguage.ch/isolated-hum...

Check out our new paper! (1/5) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @err-ring.bsky.social @kkshimizu1.bsky.social @markstoneking.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social

An inverse correlation between structural linguistic and human genetic diversity | PNAS

Linguistic structures show uneven global distributions, but it remains unknown to what extent such distributions are driven by human population his...

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⭐ We are extending our deadline for abstract submission to the 15th of May! ⭐ Thank you to everyone who already submitted their abstract! 🦩

🚨 Check out our new paper in Nature! In our new study, we sequenced 128 high-coverage genomes from Indigenous peoples across Latin America and uncovered their unique genetic diversity and history. 👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans - Nature

Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term ada...

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The largest and most diverse collection of Indigenous American genomes 👉🏻 “The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” @macscastro.bsky.social @hunemeier.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @jrockdrigo.bsky.social 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Next month in Zurich for the workshop "Rivers" organized by the The Swiss School of Latin American Studies (SSLAS) and the Latin American Center Zurich - with a beautiful poster drawing! here the full program www.lzz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:f5ea...

SAVE THE DATE! SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity 🌍 University of Cagliari, Italy - Abstract submission and travel grants deadline: 30 April - Registration opening soon - Conference dates: 21-23 September 2026

We are very excited to host a SMBE satellite meeting about gene-culture co-evolution in Cagliari, Sardinia, Sept 2026! Abstract submission is OPEN! stay tuned for more info and help us spread the news! 🦩 🏖️ 🧬 😎

SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene-Culture Co-Evolution@smbegeneculture.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SAVE THE DATE! SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity 🌍 University of Cagliari, Italy - Abstract submission and travel grants deadline: 30 April - Registration opening soon - Conference dates: 21-23 September 2026

We have a few remaining seats left in the “Programming for Evolutionary Biologists” course - 10th edition, Berlin, Feb 17 to Mar 6 evop.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de A highly motivated and experienced team is waiting for you with an updated curriculum!

"DNA tells story of language Methodologically, the study’s move is elegant. Historical documents can be rich but patchy, and for many regions and eras they simply don’t exist. Genes keep a different kind of ledger. When populations intermix, they leave an imprint that persists for thousands years."

Our DNA holds the hidden history of human language

New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, diverged, and evolved.

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A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

Anna Graff@annagraff.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our paper is out! We linked genetic and linguistic data to study how contact changes language and found consistent patterns of borrowing across contact situations @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @isle-uzh.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adv7521

📰When populations meet, they exchange genes, but also language features. According to a new study by NCCR researchers, contact between human populations increases the resemblance between their languages to similar extents all over the world, but differently. evolvinglanguage.ch/capturing-la...

Capturing language change through the genes - NCCR Evolving Language

When populations meet, they typically exchange genes. Their languages meet too, and such encounters can change languages. But how much do languages actually change through contact, and do these change...

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New paper! ⚡ With Gabriel Aguirre and Marcelo Sánchez, looking at patterns of blowgun types and use across societies of the world. We find areal patterns, similarities mediated by cultural connections, and specific types characterizing distinct branches of the Austronesian language tree. 🎯

A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A global database on blowguns with links to geography and language - Volume 7

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@annagraff.bsky.social presenting our work on effects of isolation and contact in linguistic diversity - with a peak from population genetics! #ichl27

"Outsourcing thought: why writing must remain central to human knowledge in Higher Education". Thinking of our role at University in the age of AI - by Giorgio Iemmolo. "Protect writing as the space where knowledge emerges" osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself. The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Some facts about biological sex, genetic sex, and why it is not so clear cut as people think:

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990

World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

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New paper on the genetic legacy of living inhabitants of the Northern Coast of Peru. With Ricardo Fujita and José Sandoval of USMP Lima,master student Lea Huber,@epifaniaarango.bsky.social,@kkshimizu1.bsky.social Genetic lineages characteristic of the region link to aDNA from local archaeo sites...

Peru's Hidden Genetic Legacy links to Ancient Moche Populations - NCCR Evolving Language

The northern coast of Peru is a region known for its rich archaeological heritage, but its people’s history is still underexplored. An international team of geneticists and linguists investigated the ...

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Feels like time travelling. Science and art reconstruct the life of our ancestors

See the Face of a 10,500-Year-Old Woman, Reconstructed by Archaeologists and Artists

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley during the Mesolithic period

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New volume on the interface between languages, human history, anthropology, archaeology and (a bit of) genetics, curated by M. Robbeets and M. Hudson. A very rich table of content for everyone interested in these multidisciplinary studies of the human past. I contributed two chapters:

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language

Abstract. Linguists have long described their findings in an archaeological context, while archaeologists have been interested in what language can tell th

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Our new paper is out in @science.org! By exploring the rich genetic diversity of Brazil, we show how fine-scale genomic analyses reveal that this diversity, rooted in Indigenous ancestry and centuries of complex demographic history, plays a key role in population health.

SIBE Summer School: evolution of populations at a scale. Ferrara 7-11 September. Application deadline 11 May. Travel grants available. A very nice format to learn about population genetics, conservation genomics, grant application, outreach, and networking. See you in Ferrara!

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SIBE SUMMER SCHOOL 2025 7th − 11th September 2025 FERRARA (ITALY) Overview The analysis of genomic data has become increasingly feasible, even in non-model organisms, thanks to the “omics” revolution...

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