Population geneticist at U of Utah studying history and adaptative evolution in humans. Author of "The Evidence for Evolution". I also dabble in evolutionary ecology.
Alan Rogers
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Will the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (@isbarchaeology.bsky.social) be meeting in 2027? Their website still lists the "upcoming" meeting in 2025.
Retaliatory gerrymandering should be just the beginning:
This is the most delightful thing I’ve ever read
The Neanderthal population history and the introgression landscape inferred from the UK Biobank https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716297v1
Morez Jacobs et al used 45k genomes to localize Neandertal haplotypes w/i the British; used these to infer the SFS of the introgressing Neandertals; and then inferred population history parameters of the introgressing pop. Also lots about selection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Population replacement in Neolithic France at the end of the megalith period. scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17).
A rather unremarkable sliver.
At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)?
Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4
They keep saying that renewable energy "locks in" fossil fuels.
This looks like a lockout to me.
Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today — theonion.com/biologists-c...
The genome of the Pacific acorn barnacle provides insights into the evolution of extremely large populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.27.721231v1
