Interested in prehistory, human evolution, population genetics and much more. Scientist @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leonardo Iasi
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Excited to share our manuscript version of our publication on NIHMS: “Neandertal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans” published in @science.org. Here for everyone to read: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
We have long known that early humans and Neanderthals interbred, but where did it happen and over what kind of time period? My latest for @newscientist.com reports on a new paper that finds it may have happened over a massive area 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2513...
Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at the University of Zurich! Application deadline: June 30. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions!
Very excited to be part of two manuscripts which are now on biorxiv!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Archaic humans such as Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct but their DNA lives on in many humans today because our ancestors met and had children with them.
In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We ( @zeniabaek.bsky.social @moicoll.bsky.social and @asgerhobolth.bsky.social ) present a new cool way to visualize the optimal trade off for hmm decoding called Artemis plots!
arxiv.org/pdf/2504.15156
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
If you need more exciting news about Denisovans, check out our paper on Denisovan ancestry in modern humans through time, out today in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...! #Denisovan #ancientDNA
Check out our dive into 50,000 years of Indian genetic history!🇮🇳
🧬~2,700 genomes
🦴Neanderthal/Denisovan DNA
🌾Hunter-gatherer, Iranian farmer & Steppe ancestry
🩺Health-linked, population-specific variants
@lauritsskov.bsky.social & Priya Moorjani
#Genomics #India #HumanEvolution #PopulationGenetics
📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour was much more common than we first thought
Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast
to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their
ancestry from a deep lineage ...
Gene flow from Neandertals has shaped the genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generate a catalog of Neandertal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the last 50,000 yea...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage…
