A big reason it's challenging to work out relationships of early hominins: We know today that the populations of living great apes like gorillas and bonobos have deep ancestry from diverged “ghost” lineages. Our ancestors were surely the same.

www.johnhawks.net/p/genetic-hi...

Yesterday marked the start of my PhD journey with @mps-cognition.bsky.social. We are in Berlin for welcome week, presenting our research interests to each other and attending talks by @mps-cognition.bsky.social fellows. Loved learning about connectomics from @mhlab.bsky.social. Excited for the rest!

Denisovans or their close relatives identified in the fossil record using a gene regulatory phenotyping method. Now out:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

It's a wrap for HAAM 2025! Grateful for an intense and inspiring week of exploring #aDNA and #humanpopgen both conceptually and using practical tools. Thank you to all the organisers, instructors and TAs for making this possible!

We are super excited to share our latest pre-print in collaboration with @sonjavernes.bsky.social lab! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... : Evolution of the cellular landscape in mammalian striatum 🧠🧬🧵

Very happy to share our new paper on human facial development and evolution out today in JHE 🎉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Earliest evidence of Homo sapiens living in rainforests uncovered www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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New preprint 📣! Excited to share the result of several years of work, led by @ellylewerissa.bsky.social & @olivieroleonardi.bsky.social, in collaboration with friends @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social & Giuseppe Testa. On CHD2, a chromatin remodeller, its role in evolution & development [🧵]
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