A new interdisciplinary center of excellence will be inaugurated at Uppsala University at the end of April. The central theme of the Center for the Human Past (CHP) is to connect the efforts of archaeology, genetics and linguistics to unravel the complexities of human population history, movement, mixing, culture and subsistence of the world’s peoples during the last 10,000 years.
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The newest piece in Nature’s News & Views, co-authored by our PI, Carina Schlebusch and Maja Vukovikj from Human Evolution Program at Uppsala University discusses the study by Carter et al. exploring what our gut microbiomes can tell us about human population history. Humans have never travelled alone. When our ancestors spread out of Africa…
Mattias Jakobsson was featured on Swedish Radio’s morning program (Förmiddag i P1) today, 29 Sept 2026. His conversation with Nicke Nordmark, the program leader, is available at: https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/manniskans-okanda-ursprung (in Swedish). They talked about Homo Sapiens, Neanderthals, and Denisovans and their coexistence; the unknown DNA in our genes; and the possibility that humans as we know…
We are pleased to welcome Jaison Jeevan Sequeira, Guest Lecturer & Researcher, Department of Applied Zoology, Mangalore University, as our new fellow. Jaison is a population geneticist interested in the demographic history of South Asia. His doctoral thesis focused on the ancestral history and genomic diversity of linguistic populations along the southwest coast of India.…
