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SUMMARY:Recent human evolution: an overview of two Nature papers
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Erik Aurell (KTH)\n\nSeveral papers have appeared in
  the last years leveraging ancient human DNA to estimate which human prope
 rties have evolved through natural selection. The topic is of general inte
 rest to understand what makes us humans so different from our closest rela
 tives\, and may also have medical interest to understand the context in wh
 ich many heritable or partly heritable diseases appear.\nThe topic has man
 y difficulties from the actually recovering ancient human DNA\, to storing
  and analyzing large data sets and taking into account missing and/or unev
 enly sampled data\, to confounding factors such as migrations of human pop
 ulations and replacement / mixing events.\nI will here focus on which math
 ematical models that have been used to infer (or claim to infer) selection
 \, focusing on the recent and very recent papers [1] and [2]. Other papers
  will be referred to as appropriate and/or needed. \n[1] Irving-Pease\, E
 .K.\, Refoyo-Martínez\, A.\, Barrie\, W. et al. [Eske Willerslev] The se
 lection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians. Nature 625\, 3
 12–320 (2024)\n[2]   Akbari\, A.\, Perry\, A.\, Barton\, A.R. et al. [
 David Reich] Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across We
 st Eurasia. Nature 654\, 419–428 (2026). \n\nhttps://indico.fysik.su.s
 e/event/9747/
LOCATION:Albano 3: 5230 - Xenon (12 seats) (Albano Building 3)
URL:https://indico.fysik.su.se/event/9747/
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