Τhe deadline is approaching!!

This morning, everyone MPI-EVA Leipzig joined in to welcome and congratulate our very own #NobelPrize laureate, Svante Pääbo, one of our institute's founding directors and brilliant mind! We are totally ecstatic and delighted! 😊🥳🥰 Max Planck Society The Nobel Prize

Surreal and most satisfying to watch this :) Congratulations Svante Pääbo!! A huge accomplishment for the entire field of ancient DNA!
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Chapter 2 is out!
Our new publication on ancient Y. pestis and S. enterica genomes from Bronze Age Crete
doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…
Special thanks to my co-authors Maria Spyrou Eirini Skourtanioti Philipp W. Stockhammer and everybody involved!

National Geographic Picture of The Year. Black images are shadows of zebras. Zoom in and you will see zebras.

A bumpy ride to the re-discovery of Zlatý Kůň: a fascinating puzzle of human history in the proper hands! many congrats to Cosimo Posth, Maria Spyrou, Kay Prüfer, He Yu, Johannes Krause and all the other members of the team!! natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/a-bumpy-… #behindthepaper

A multiproxy dataset shows that Olduvai hominins periodically used emerging landscapes and disturbance biomes multiple times over 235,000 years-- much earlier than previously thought.

nature.com/articles/s4146…
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A complete ice mummy of a cave bear has been found on an island off the coast of Siberia😮 Cave bears went extinct 15.000 years ago. Estimated to be 22,000-39,500 years old. Scientists hope to be able to extract DNA from the mummy.
(Photo: North-Eastern Federal University)

Years after the early-term zoology classes, this study from Kapli et al. challenge our knowloedge about evolution of deuterostomes! Well done!

The first protocols.io ancient DNA protocol from the Archaeogenetics Deparment at @MPI_SHH is now avaliable!

Ancient DNA Extraction from Skeletal Material protocols.io/view/ancient-d…

Presentaré nuestro artículo sobre nuevas aproximaciones sobre el poblamiento temprano del Caribe.
science.sciencemag.org/content/early/…
Pero antes de presenter los resultados me gustaria relatar algunos consideraciónes
Por favor disculpe mi español, no soy hablante nativa

To round off a big week of ancient DNA papers, here's our latest one on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Europe: advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/22/e…
A huge thanks to Maïté Rivollat and the beautiful team. This was fun!

Our paper 'Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant and Southern Caucasus' has came out today in Cell. Many thanks to all the co-authors and collaborators! @MPI_SHH

cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Kawasaki disease remains rare, and recognising it early leads to a good prognosis econ.trib.al/CXjnjRZ

#Cannibalism helps invading invertebrates survive severe conditions. A new study of the #invasive comb jelly sheds light on the evolutionary origins of cannibalism. buff.ly/35HiUD6

Our article on the origin and health status of first-generation Africans from the Viceroyalty of New Spain is out now in Current Biology! disq.us/t/3o8nra4 Here’s the #thread in case you can’t make the complete read:

The sequence of the new virus's genome reveals none of the telltales genetic engineering would leave in its wake econ.trib.al/chiLZs5