Center for the Human Past
Nature
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Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeys
Read more →: Gut microbes that trace ancient human journeysThe 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…
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Surprising discovery in prehistoric DNA – traced to our kidneys
Read more →: Surprising discovery in prehistoric DNA – traced to our kidneysLatest research results from Mattias Jakobsson and his colleagues at the Human Evolution Program were featured on local TV (18 Apr 2026). By examining DNA from thousands of years-old bone fragments, researchers have found genetic changes that were present in prehistoric humans – and in us today. The researchers also made a surprising discovery: several…
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The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset is now published
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Read more →: The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset is now publishedAbstract The Indo-European Cognate Relationships (IE-CoR) dataset is an open-access relational dataset showing how related, inherited words (‘cognates’) pattern across 160 languages of the Indo-European family. IE-CoR is intended as a benchmark dataset for computational research into the evolution of the Indo-European languages. It is structured around 170 reference meanings in core lexicon, and contains…