Listen to the episode: Shortcut to human history
Mattias Jakobsson, professor at the Department of Organismal Biology, investigates with the help of DNA analyzes how modern humans arose and how they then spread across the world. She then came into contact and had children with other human groups such as Neanderthals and the enigmatic Denisovans who we basically only know through their DNA.
– So far we only have a really good genome so we are a bit in the dark and still groping about the history of the Denisova man, says Mattias Jakobsson.
In his research, he is also interested in the time when the Hunter Stone Age began to transition into the Peasant Stone Age.
Together with other researchers, Mattias Jakobsson will now build a center of excellence at Uppsala University and will focus on human prehistory for the last 10,000 years. It will be interdisciplinary, with different approaches to the research area.
Åsa Malmberg
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