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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neande
 rtal-human interactions - Dr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute fo
 r Evolutionary Anthropology\, Leipzig
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CONTACT:Caroline Newnham
DESCRIPTION:In the last decade\, ancient DNA (aDNA) has transformed our un
 derstanding of human evolutionary history\, enabling us to study genetic v
 ariation directly across time and space without being constrained to the s
 maller subset of diversity found in present-day populations. However\, des
 pite genomic data being recovered from more than 10\,000 ancient humans to
  date\, relatively few genomes have been recovered from the time period wh
 en modern humans started dispersing out-of-Africa and could have encounter
 ed some of the last Neandertals.\n\nModern humans and Neandertals overlapp
 ed in Eurasia during a period known as the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic tr
 ansition\, starting at minimum ~48\,000 years ago\, but possibly even earl
 ier. The exact timing and the reasons for the disappearance of Neandertals
  at ~40\,000 years ago\, the extent to which they overlapped with modern h
 umans in Eurasia\, and the nature of their interactions have been intensiv
 ely debated for decades and still remain contentious issues today. In this
  talk I will outline the current projects in the newly established Max Pla
 nck Research Group for ‘Hominin Palaeogenomics’ (HOPE)\, with which we
  are aiming to address some of these outstanding questions and fill in the
  crucial gaps in one of the key periods in human evolutionary history.
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