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  1. Analyses of historical genomes reveal that German Shepherd #Dogs experienced significant genetic bottlenecks primarily after World War II and through the excessive use of popular sires, resulting in a massive drop in genetic diversity compared to early 20th-century specimens.
    #Paleogenetics #EvolutionaryGenomics #EvolutionaryBiology #GermanShepherd #sflorg
    sflorg.com/2026/02/ebio0204260

  2. Svante Pääbo, father of paleogenetics: ‘The reason for the Neanderthals’ extinction lies in how numerous we’ve become’.

    The Nobel Prize winner in Medicine is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit.

    mediafaro.org/article/20251006

    #SvantePaabo #HomoSapiens #NobelPrize #Paleogenetics #Palaeogenetics #Genetic #Neanderthals #Science

  3. 🇹🇲 Guarino-Vignon P, Marchi N, Chimènes A, Monnereau A, Kroll S, Mashkour M, Lhuillier J, Bendezu-Sarmiento J, Heyer E and Bon C (2022) Genetic analysis of a bronze age individual from Ulug-depe (Turkmenistan). Front. Genet. 13:884612. doi: doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.884 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genetics #Paleogenetics #CentralAsia #BMAC #BronzeAge #Turkmenistan @science