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Cool new work by Eduardo Amorim Kirk Lohmueller and collaborators on the genetics of domestication, looking at the evolutionary consequences of #domestication on the selective effects of new amino acid changing mutations in canids biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We believe that we have discovered a vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum: work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian Alden Shoup Paul Hage Hisham Elseweifi biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Wellcome Human Evolution Conference 2025 🥳! 'From Fossils to Ancient and Modern Genomes' 28–30 April 2025 Wellcome Genome Campus, UK & Virtual …erences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/human-ev… Come and join us 😍!! #HumanEvo25

Amazing work by Sheena Josselyn Sylvie Lesuis and colleagues in Cell on the molecular mechanisms underlying stress-induced memory alterations: cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Today in Nature Neuroscience, researchers led by Nowakowski_Lab, @ChangLabUCSF & Mircea Teodorescu (UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute) demonstrate the first use of optogenetics to modulate seizure activity at the network level in human brain tissue: nature.com/articles/s4159… John UCSF Broad Stem Cell

Great work by Sara Nolbrant Jenelle Wallace Jingwen Ding @brainevodev, developing a “phylogeny-in-a-dish” approach to uncover species-specific properties of midbrain dopaminergic neurons. Amazing #organoid work to address evolutionary questions 🧠🧬🧫: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our latest paper is out in NatureEcoEvo: Inferring DNA methylation in non-skeletal tissues of ancient specimens. A major challenge in studying DNA methylation in ancient samples is that it is tissue-specific. 1/11

Really nice work on the nature of gene regulation (William J. Greenleaf’s group)👇

New work by Liran Carmel, Eran Meshorer and collaborators, extending their earlier work on DNA methylation to non-skeletal tissues of ancient specimens, with results bearing on human brain evolution nature.com/articles/s4155…

Fascinating work from Andrea Migliano’s group [Human Evolutionary Ecology Group UZH] out in Science, on cultural evolution, showing how population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture [study led by Cassandra Gunasekaram] science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Great paper by Xi-Han Zhang, @AvramHolmes and colleagues in Nature Neuroscience, on the cell-type underpinnings of the human functional cortical connectome nature.com/articles/s4159…

Thrilled to share my latest work "Microstructural asymmetry in the human cortex" now out in Nature Communications. This work used cytoarchitecture (BigBrain), T1w/T2w, qT1, and MT measures to bring the cortical asymmetry from macrostructure to microstructure. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨Our newest paper on human brain evolution 🧠 ✅ This study reveals that brain expansion in hominins was primarily driven by within-species dynamics, with an accelerating trend in recent lineages! ⁦Oxford Anthropology⁩ ⁦UoR BioSci⁩ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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