Pontus Skoglund

@pontus_skoglund

DNA and the human past. Group leader of Institute's ancient genomics lab.

London, England
crick.ac.uk/research/labs/…
Joined September 2012
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    27 Nov 2017

    Too many ancient human genomics papers to keep up with? and I have drafted a one-stop-shop review of what you need to know. Looking for comments from colleagues.

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    Sep 28

    After centuries of racism and disrespect from the scientific establishment, Indigenous scientists are learning to be their own genome experts—and shaping the future of the field. My latest story for

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  3. Sep 27

    New call for early career research group leaders in biomedicine Institute--highly recommended positions with outstanding support. Happy to talk about my experience with interested colleagues in human genomics or evolutionary biology.

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    Sep 21

    - renewing earlier call for SNP suggestions for upcoming publicly available reagent (updated 1240k plus other modular content). window open for next 1-2 months. - closing note on importance of clean outgroup ascertainment especially for African research

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    Sep 21

    Skoglund: presents overview of population history in Africa and new models of longstanding gene flow (that also fit the data)

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    Sep 21

    “Modelling early human lineages in Africa” – expanding on - “memes” aside, still impossible to strongly insist on any particular modern human source region w/in Africa - multiplicity of population history models compatible w/ data

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    Sep 18

    BONA!!! Discovery of a vast and wealthy Tswana stone kingdom about 5 times the size of and at least as advanced as the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur.

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  8. Sep 19

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  9. Sep 19

    Alissa Mittnik of with a talk that heralds a new era of studying archaeological sites: using high resolution ancient DNA to reconstruct relatedness patterns---her results reveal patrilocality in Late Neolithic and Bronze Age Central Europe

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  10. Sep 17

    This. Takeaway from a great is increasingly high resolution of human prehistory in the period 50-20 kya (very impressed eg by UP talks & posters), contrasting with many new mysteries for 50-500kya accummulating across disciplines. Progress.

    Aurélien Mounier virtually models a potential last common AMH ancestor that emerges as morphologically proximate to Florisbad. One take away from seems to be that the "muddle in the middle [Pleistocene]" is more pertinent than ever!
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    Sep 13

    Profs. Marta Mirazón Lahr and delivered two powerful lectures with a common core message: there's still much work to do to understand the profound history of our species in Africa. Fascinating times to work in Human Evolution...

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    Sep 13

    . A to Q: The African aDNA record isn't only incredibly thin, it's also shallow, so projecting back into the Pleistocene is very fraught (as is finding more aDNA samples)

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    Sep 13
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    And ‘multiregional’ connections across ancient Africa rather than clean splits, as well as local extinctions..

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    Sep 13

    . Two contributing and possibly early diverging source populations to west Africans today

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    Sep 13

    Up next, the always interesting - Genomic models of early modern human populations in Africa

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    Sep 11

    Excellent session on the Stone Age of West Africa organised by Eleanor Scerri and Katja Douze today at the PanAf conference in Rabat.

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    Sep 9

    Would appreciate to see it reported this way: in EU country with largest number of refugees per capita, 82% of voters did NOT vote for far-right nativists

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    Aug 24

    Couldn't say it better!

    Certainty is rare in human evolution, so 1st gen Neandertal/Denisovan mixed ancestry 90kya is a uniquely valuable data point. Contact was perhaps easy during encounters, but high genetic differentiation (Fst ~ 0.8) suggests that encounters weren’t common
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  19. Aug 24

    Certainty is rare in human evolution, so 1st gen Neandertal/Denisovan mixed ancestry 90kya is a uniquely valuable data point. Contact was perhaps easy during encounters, but high genetic differentiation (Fst ~ 0.8) suggests that encounters weren’t common

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    Aug 23

    Scientists have discovered remains of an ancient human with mixed ancestry - half-Neanderthal, half-Denisovan. Listen to Crick Group Leader discussing the discovery on 🦴🧬

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    Aug 22

    Get the scoop on the Neanderthal-Denisovan offspring paper from lead author Viviane Slon in the Ecology & Evolution Community

    Genetic analysis reveals that a woman who died 90,000 years ago was half Neanderthal and half Denisovan.
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