CompEvo & HumanG Labs
@compevohumang.bsky.social
Comparative and Evolutionary Biology Lab at METU - Human Molecular Anthropology Lab at Hacettepe
#ancientDNA #HumanHistory
Turkish & English
#ancientDNA #HumanHistory
Turkish & English
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🧬 Çatalhöyük'te aile kan bağıyla değil hayat ortaklığıyla kurulmuş!
Genetik analizler gösteriyor ki, zamanla aynı evde yaşayanlar biyolojik akraba olmaktan çıkıyor. Kız çocukları mezarlarda 5 kat daha fazla hediyeyle gömülüyor.
🔍 Neolitik sosyal yapının şaşırtıcı hikayesi.
Genetik analizler gösteriyor ki, zamanla aynı evde yaşayanlar biyolojik akraba olmaktan çıkıyor. Kız çocukları mezarlarda 5 kat daha fazla hediyeyle gömülüyor.
🔍 Neolitik sosyal yapının şaşırtıcı hikayesi.
August 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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2) They assembled genomes of 65 individuals to near completion—including centromeres and the MHC—enabling accurate detection of 26,115 structural variants per genome for improved disease studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature
Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
2) They assembled genomes of 65 individuals to near completion—including centromeres and the MHC—enabling accurate detection of 26,115 structural variants per genome for improved disease studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1) They sequenced 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP cohort with long reads. Using linear and graph-based analyses, we uncovered SVs down to low allele frequencies—advancing beyond short-read population surveys. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Structural variation in 1,019 diverse humans based on long-read sequencing - Nature
Intermediate-coverage long-read sequencing in 1,019 diverse humans from the 1000 Genomes Project, representing 26 populations, enables the generation of comprehensive population-scale structural varia...
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
1) They sequenced 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP cohort with long reads. Using linear and graph-based analyses, we uncovered SVs down to low allele frequencies—advancing beyond short-read population surveys. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social
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Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
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June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
📜 This thread summarizes findings from our paper published yesterday in Science.
🔗 You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔗 You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
www.science.org
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
📜 This thread summarizes findings from our paper published yesterday in Science.
🔗 You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔗 You can read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This study highlights the remarkable adaptability and cultural creativity of Neolithic communities.
Change doesn’t always require crisis or mass migration.
Change doesn’t always require crisis or mass migration.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This study highlights the remarkable adaptability and cultural creativity of Neolithic communities.
Change doesn’t always require crisis or mass migration.
Change doesn’t always require crisis or mass migration.
The takeaway:
Ideas sometimes travel faster and further than people.
The pot arrives, but the potter stays. Farming can spread like gossip — from neighbor to neighbor.
Ideas sometimes travel faster and further than people.
The pot arrives, but the potter stays. Farming can spread like gossip — from neighbor to neighbor.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The takeaway:
Ideas sometimes travel faster and further than people.
The pot arrives, but the potter stays. Farming can spread like gossip — from neighbor to neighbor.
Ideas sometimes travel faster and further than people.
The pot arrives, but the potter stays. Farming can spread like gossip — from neighbor to neighbor.
Led by researchers from METU and Hacettepe, in an international collaboration, this study integrates ancient DNA with archaeology.
📊 Pottery types, stone tool morphologies, and architectural features were quantified and directly compared to the genetic data.
📊 Pottery types, stone tool morphologies, and architectural features were quantified and directly compared to the genetic data.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Led by researchers from METU and Hacettepe, in an international collaboration, this study integrates ancient DNA with archaeology.
📊 Pottery types, stone tool morphologies, and architectural features were quantified and directly compared to the genetic data.
📊 Pottery types, stone tool morphologies, and architectural features were quantified and directly compared to the genetic data.
This pattern is quite different from the farming expansion into Europe, which was largely driven by migration.
➡️ In Anatolia, farming spread sometimes with people, sometimes with ideas, and often with a mix of both.
➡️ In Anatolia, farming spread sometimes with people, sometimes with ideas, and often with a mix of both.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This pattern is quite different from the farming expansion into Europe, which was largely driven by migration.
➡️ In Anatolia, farming spread sometimes with people, sometimes with ideas, and often with a mix of both.
➡️ In Anatolia, farming spread sometimes with people, sometimes with ideas, and often with a mix of both.
In other words, people stayed physically in place, but their culture changed dramatically.
Farming spread not through genetic mixing but through cultural transformation.
Farming spread not through genetic mixing but through cultural transformation.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In other words, people stayed physically in place, but their culture changed dramatically.
Farming spread not through genetic mixing but through cultural transformation.
Farming spread not through genetic mixing but through cultural transformation.
But the archaeological record tells a different story:
🏺 Pottery, tools, and architecture change rapidly. People move from caves into houses, adopt new technologies, and begin farming.
🏺 Pottery, tools, and architecture change rapidly. People move from caves into houses, adopt new technologies, and begin farming.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
But the archaeological record tells a different story:
🏺 Pottery, tools, and architecture change rapidly. People move from caves into houses, adopt new technologies, and begin farming.
🏺 Pottery, tools, and architecture change rapidly. People move from caves into houses, adopt new technologies, and begin farming.
Genetic analyses reveal that the genomes of individuals living in western Anatolia 9,000 years ago show strong continuity with earlier local hunter-gatherers.
➡️ This suggests there were no large-scale migrations.
➡️ This suggests there were no large-scale migrations.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Genetic analyses reveal that the genomes of individuals living in western Anatolia 9,000 years ago show strong continuity with earlier local hunter-gatherers.
➡️ This suggests there were no large-scale migrations.
➡️ This suggests there were no large-scale migrations.
This study is the first to combine genetic and archaeological data at scale and systematically to understand how farming spread from the Fertile Crescent into Anatolia and the Aegean.
June 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This study is the first to combine genetic and archaeological data at scale and systematically to understand how farming spread from the Fertile Crescent into Anatolia and the Aegean.