Jonas Mehl
jmehl.bsky.social
Jonas Mehl
@jmehl.bsky.social
Computational Biology & Bioinformatics @ Uni Goettingen
Reposted by Jonas Mehl
My colleague Hannah Ritchie has published an excellent three-part series on the impact of climate change on agriculture.

In part 1 she shows that yields have increased dramatically in recent decades, but some crops would have improved more without climate change.

ourworldindata.org/crop-yields-...
Crop yields have increased dramatically in recent decades, but crops like maize would have improved more without climate change
Climate change has slowed the productivity of key crops such as maize and soybeans, but might have had small positive impacts on wheat.
ourworldindata.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Reposted by Jonas Mehl
I wrote about the evidence for selective sweeps from genomic data over the past 50,000 years. A few highlights:
Where are the (less recent) selective sweeps?
A murky picture of selection in the past 50,000 years from ancient and modern DNA
open.substack.com
November 2, 2024 at 5:23 PM