The Center for the Human Past (CHP) starts a seminar series, Talks of the Past (ToP Seminars), in September 2024. The seminars (app. 45 min) will take place on the first Wednesday of each month and will be followed by a discussion and a “fika” (coffee break).
The event is open to students and academics interested in interdisciplinary research in the fields of palaeogenetics, archaeology, and linguistics.
Jenny Larsson, one of the Center for the Human Past’s leaders, was approached to comment on the two recent Nature publications by McColl and others (2026) . The co-authors suggest that genetic analyses paint a new picture of how languages spread. According to them, the language arrived during a cultural shift that brought new burial…
Searching for sapiens-specific evolution Mattias Jakobsson receives new funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, VR) to “develop a statistical, machine-learning–based framework that jointly analyses genomes from archaic humans, ancient southern Africans, and present-day populations.” In the next four years, the project expects to identify genomic regions and biological pathways that evolved rapidly during the…
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) is an independent foundation that supports research in the humanities and social sciences essential to understanding and addressing society’s current challenges, both nationally and globally. Through its funding, the foundation aims to promote basic research of the highest scientific quality. It also responds to the need for long-term, stable research funding. This…