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Dr Sam Neil

@drsamneil.bsky.social

Uses biomolecular science to study human biological and social evolution: #aDNA and #isotopes Research Fellow @pacea.bsky.social University of Bordeaux and @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social University of Oxford

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Yulin Zhang@yulinzhang.bsky.social · 6d ago

Good news! Our paper (with @aabiddanda.github.io @sarahaj34.bsky.social @codushlaine.bsky.social and Priya Moorjani) is now officially online! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs

Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...

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Yulin Zhang@yulinzhang.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dr Sam Neil@drsamneil.bsky.social · 4w ago

La Cité du Vin exhibition in Bordeaux, illustrating temperature bands in which wine can be grown. Sadly with current temperatures here Bordeaux may not be a centre for wine production for much longer

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Palesa@palaeoprotpalesa.bsky.social · last mo.

Hello Hello, If you have some downtime and want to read something excitingly odd, read on the enamel proteins of Homo naledi: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Working closely with Alberto, @clairekoenig.bsky.social, @ipatramanis.bsky.social, and the rest of our collaborators was just so wonderful.

Proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 Homo naledi individuals shows no male markers

The morphological homogeneity of the middle Pleistocene hominin Homo naledi is reflected in its dental proteome, with no evidence supporting confident identification of male individuals, and the detec...

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Aylwyn Scally@aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Associate in Population Genetics Modelling and Environmental DNA (Fixed Term) in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge.

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Dr Sam Neil@drsamneil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New study "Enamel nanocrystal misorientation increased with meat-eating and agriculture", argues our tooth enamel adapted to the development of farming. But the study is limited by sample size & location: Mesolithic-Neolithic populations were not sampled. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enamel nanocrystal misorientation increased with meat-eating and agriculture - Nature

An analysis of enamel nanocrystal misorientation in primate and human teeth across three major dietary shifts in human evolution shows that misorientation increased with harder diets, suggesting that ...

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Felix M Key@keyfm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Can we reconstruct ancient pathogen genomes from animal remains? Can paleopathology help prioritize promising specimens? Our new paper demonstrates this by screening more than 300 specimens from across Eurasia over the past 6,000 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Probing the zooarchaeological record across time and space for ancient pathogen DNA - Nature Communications

Authors investigate ancient DNA from animal remains and identify multiple signatures of ancient zoonotic pathogens. They find ancient pathogen genomics from archaeological animal remains may inform zo...

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Jennifer Raff@jenniferraff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am so happy to share this new paper that I wrote with @cegamorim.bsky.social! We hope that it will help encourage dialogue and collaboration between archaeologists and geneticists trying to understand kinship in the past. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧬🧪

Scrutinizing Kinship and Biological Relatedness Through the Lens of Palaeogenomics | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core

Scrutinizing Kinship and Biological Relatedness Through the Lens of Palaeogenomics - Volume 36 Issue 2

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