Population replacement in Neolithic France at the end of the megalith period. scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
This is the most delightful thing I’ve ever read
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
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The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Alan Rogers
Katerina Douka
Kat Abughazaleh
Will the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (@isbarchaeology.bsky.social) be meeting in 2027? Their website still lists the "upcoming" meeting in 2025.
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...
Retaliatory gerrymandering should be just the beginning:
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
