Research

Gelabert, P., Sawyer, S., Villalba-Mouco, V., Cheronet, O., Oberreiter, V., Gárate, D., Normand, C., Straus, L.G., González Morales, M.R., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Cuenca-Solana, D., Darricau, J., de Lumley, H., Tejero, J.-M., Stahlschmidt, M., Higham, T., Giannì, M., van der Sluis, L.G., Gómez-Montes, C., Ibáñez-Herranz, M., Hämmerle, M., Zagorc, B., Exler, F., Brück, F., Franz, S., Tenorio Cano, F., Stewardson, K., Qiu, L., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., Lucci, M., Nava, A., Genchi, F., Coppola, D., La Marca, C., Coppa, A., Reich, D., Pinhasi, R., 2026. Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM. Science Advances 12, eaeh6128. read more

Archer, W., Mackay, A., Porraz, G., Presnyakova, D., Stahlschmidt, M., 2026. Fire, temperature control, and silcrete heat treatment at Diepkloof and Mertenhof Rock Shelters, West Coast, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 217, 103853. read more

Yan, Y., Mishol, N., Lange, K., Zhang, Z., Bodek, G., Kigel, A., Priel, N., Egyes, N., Ronen, O., Nini, I., Rotenstreich, L., Philosoph, A., Martinez, S., Beltramone, S., Tsujikawa, R., Rozenblatt, A., Wange, L.E., Torralvo, M., Hirsh, G., Elboim, Y., Viukov, S., Korenfeld, I., Damal Kandadai, M., Cluzeau, O., Nissim-Rafinia, M., Meshorer, E., Hanna, J.H., Vereecke, E., Marom, A., Kuhlwilm, M., Bourque, G., Marques-Bonet, T., Fishilevich, S., Inoue, F., Gokhman, D., 2026. The gene-regulatory evolution of the human skeleton. Nature. read more

Bielke, A., Ardestani, S.S., Sharif, B., Orozco-ter Wengel, P., Fitak, R.R., Wallner, B., Wilson, K., Mohandesan, E., 2026. Demographic history and management practices shape the genomic landscape of New Zealand’s feral Kaimanawa Horses. BMC Genomics. read more

Keller, M., Guellil, M., Slavin, P., Saag, L., Irdt, K., Kabral, H., Solnik, A., Malve, M., Valk, H., Kriiska, A., Cessford, C., Inskip, S.A., Robb, J.E., Cooper, C., von Planta, C., Seifert, M., Reitmaier, T., Baetsen, W.A., Walker, D., Lösch, S., Szidat, S., Metspalu, M., Kivisild, T., Tambets, K., Scheib, C.L., 2026. A refined phylochronology of the second plague pandemic in Western Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, e2534899123. read more

Huang, X., Chen, S., Han, S., Kuhlwilm, M., 2026. Genomic landscapes of natural selection in great apes. Genome Biology. read more

Crego-Walters, M., Cuadros-Espinoza, S., Ruiz-Gartzia, I., Han, S., Hermosilla-Albala, N., Helsen, P., Frandsen, P., Brumwell-Prats, A.M., Alentorn-Moron, P., Fontsere, C., Alvarez-Estape, M., Ngofuna, M., Monghiemo, C., Leendertz, F., Thompson, J., Fasbender, D., Dieguez, P., Lokasola, A.L., Brand, C., Ndjango, J.-B., Georgiev, A.V., Giles, J.A., Liu, W., Li, Y., Sharp, P.M., Pereboom, Z., Andrés, A.M., Kuhlwilm, M., Gronau, I., Kuehl, H., Wessling, E.G., Narat, V., Surbeck, M., Hart, J.A., Hart, T.B., Hvilsom, C., Krützen, M., Stevens, J., Hahn, B.H., Lizano, E., Prado-Martinez, J., Marques-Bonet, T., 2026. Targeted chromosomal sequencing of wild bonobos identifies a genetically distinct subpopulation east of the Lomami river. Genome Biology. read more

Obrochta, W.M., Marcinkowska, U.M., Ball, M.E., Brittain, R.S.A., Galbarczyk, A., Klimek, M., Nenko, I., Stephen, I.D., Windhager, S., Jasienska, G., 2026. The evaluation of facial features as markers of cardiometabolic health in women of post-reproductive age. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 14. read more

Rymbekova, A., Gelabert, P., Llanos-Lizcano, A., Balakrishnan, K., Hämmerle, M., Han, S., Cheronet, O., Abdykanova, A., Kasymkulov, K., Hrivnyak, M., Eng, J.T., Pinhasi, R., Kuhlwilm, M., 2026. Genomic insights into the Iron Age Saka of Boz-Barmak, Kyrgyzstan. Scientific Reports. read more

Stanton, D.W.G., Bergström, A., Heintzman, P.D., van der Valk, T., Carmagnini, A., Ersmark, E., Pawar, H., Sandoval-Velasco, M., Androsov, S., Fedorov, S., Kuhlwilm, M., Nagel, D., Plotnikov, V., Protopopov, A., Shapiro, B., Barnett, R., Sinding, M.-H.S., Marques-Bonet, T., Yamaguchi, N., Gilbert, M.T.P., Götherström, A., Skoglund, P., Frantz, L., Dalén, L., 2026. Paleogenomes reveal the evolutionary relationship between modern and cave lions. Cell 189, 4425-4436.e4411. read more

Gallup, A.C., Windhager, S., Eldakar, O.T., 2026. Faces reveal accurate information about overhand throwing ability in men. Animal Behaviour 237, 123621. read more

Végh, E.I., Afjehi-Sadat, L., Giannì, M., Horejs, B., Yazbeck, C., Higham, T., 2026. Tiny Hopes─Assessing Protein Preservation in Collagen-Depleted Bones. Journal of Proteome Research. read more

Menéndez, L.P., Veigl, S., It Takes Two to Tango: A Pluralist Account for Building Comprehensive Explanations in Human Evolution. American Anthropologist  read more

Edeltin, L., Niespolo, E., Kracht, O.M., Alon, S., Amos, L., Friesem, D.E., Goder-Goldberger, M., Grono, E., Lavi, R., Porat, N., Schechter, H.C., Tejero, J.-M., Ujma, C., Wieler, N., Marder, O., 2026. Dawn of the Initial and Early Upper Paleolithic blade industries in the Levant: Mobility and interactions as reflected from Shualim Rockshelter, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution 215-216, 103846. read more

Menéndez, L.P., Luisi, P., López-Sosa, M.C., Da Silva, S.M., Buck, L.T., Kuzminsky, S.C., Sánchez, M.Q., Le Maître, A., Chappard, C., Rios, C., 2026. µCT scanning effects on aDNA and a multi-step workflow for archaeological petrous portions. PLoS One 21, e0334682.   read more

Akbari, A., Perry, A., Barton, A.R., Kariminejad, M., Gazal, S., Li, Z., Zeng, Y., Mittnik, A., Patterson, N., Mah, M., Zhou, X., Price, A.L., Lander, E.S., Pinhasi, R., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Reich, D., 2026. Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia. Nature. read more

Stahlschmidt, M.C., Power, R.C., Heinrich, S., Poggenpoel, C., Parkington, J., 2025. A microcontextual investigation of Later Stone Age ash deposits and associated interment of human remains at Faraoskop Rock Shelter, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17, 23. read more

Salek Ardestani, S., Mohandesan, E., 2026. GENOVIS: a Python package for the visualization of population genetic analyses. BMC Genomics 27, 190. read more

Higham, C., Higham, T., 2026. Dealing With Inbuilt Age: A Bayesian Approach to Radiocarbon Dating of Rice, Bamboo and Charcoal From Non Ban Jak, Thailand. Archaeometry. read more