During the last couple of weeks, I have been asked by Matthew Collins (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge) to contribute two lectures to the module “Ancient Biomolecules”.
In my lecture “Climate and population genetics” I have discussed how to integrate climate into population genetics and genomics, which are the assumptions to take into account, and how to interpret the resulting information. In “The genetics of horse domestication”, I presented and explained a recent paper (Librado et al 2021, Nature) detailing the domestication and spread of Eurasian horses on the basis of ancient DNA data.
It was a lovely occasion, as my talks were followed by many questions and an interesting discussion. I hope there will be other opportunities to collaborate on these topics.