Eske Willerslev | University of Copenhagen

Ancient Genomes Show the European Meta-Population

By Eske Willerslev | University of Copenhagen on Nov 6, 2014 Science/Education

DNA recovered from a 36,000 year old fossil skeleton found in Russia shows early divergence of Eurasians once they had left Africa, and the deep shared ancestry of Europeans. The new study, carried out by an international team of researchers, also reveals when Neanderthals and early modern humans out of Africa interbred – around 54,000 […]

America's only Clovis Skeleton has its Genome Mapped

By Eske Willerslev | University of Copenhagen on Feb 12, 2014 Science/Education

They lived in America about 13,000 years ago where they hunted mammoth, mastodons and giant bison with big spears. The Clovis people were not the first humans in America, but they represent the first humans with a wide expansion on the North American continent â€“ until the culture mysteriously disappeared only a few hundred years […]