Cedric Boeckx

Congratulations @lancasterlab.bsky.social —richly deserved 👏👏

Assessing the Potential of Ancient Protein Sequences in the Study of Hominid Evolution Abstract. Palaeoproteomic data can provide invaluable insights into hominid evolution over long timescales. Yet, the potential and limitations of ancient p

@ipatramanis.bsky.social @lauritsskov.bsky.social Cappellini & Racimo show that phylogenetic inferences based on ancient protein sequence data may sometimes differ from DNA-based inference.

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#genome #evolution #humanevolution

Inhibitory neurons are among the most transcriptomically diverse class of neurons in the CNS, with some brain regions having 60+ distinct cell types. Do humans share the same repertoire as rodents? Birds? Fish? 1/13

Congrats to first author @willsnyder.bsky.social 👏

Great work! 👏👏

New preprint alert! In this study, we tackled a long-debated question: is the genetic basis of convergent evolution predictable? Should we expect the same gene/loci contributing to convergent adaptation to a common selective pressure? Thread ahead 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Very nice new preprint by @bogglerapture.bsky.social & colleagues, offering new genetic insights on the mechanisms of human cortical folding, looking at the effects of both rare and common variants 🧪🧠🧬
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

“Recovering signatures of archaic introgression using ancestral recombination graphs” nice new preprint from PriyaMoorjani’s lab, with good summary thread by first author @yulinzhang.bsky.social 👇🧪🧬

Congrats @matthewcobb.bsky.social. Richly deserved! “Crick” is an outstanding biography 👏👏

Congrats @matthewcobb.bsky.social. Richly deserved! “Crick” is an outstanding biography 👏👏

bioRxiv Community Voices graphic featuring Cedric Boeckx, from ICREA and University of Barcelona (Spain). The post has a headshot of Cedric and the quote “bioRxiv is still a noun, but it also has become a verb: in the life sciences, you don’t just publish, you bioRxiv.” The footer says "bioRxiv and medRxiv are preprint servers of openRxiv."

Affiliate @cedricboeckx.bsky.social loves to play a part in accelerating science through bioRxiv preprints and urges researchers to take advantage of all bioRxiv offers. Thanks to Affiliates like him, preprints post ~48 hours after submission. (1/2)
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Very nice work about the division of labor between Cortex & Cerebellum 👇🧪🧠

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Thank you so much 🙏

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Many thanks to the audience at my talk @radicalanthro.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk yesterday. Great questions for me to think more about. Very grateful to Chris & Camilla for making this possible 🙏

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The emergence of the language system in the toddler brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes

Looking forward to seeing friends @radicalanthro.bsky.social in London tomorrow

Terrific work 👏👏

Very good piece, John

Amazing peppered moth story from Saccheri lab - same locus, but different structural variants, underly parallel evolution of industrial melanism in the UK and across continental Europe.

Congrats @dralexanderplatt.bsky.social! (Sorry I missed your handle in the original post)

Very good point (although the study touches on ‘mate preference’ right from the abstract…)

An ancient dog breed regulates pitch when howling with music Patel et al. show a component of human singing, the ability to coordinate vocal pitch with other simultaneous voices, exists in the howling of an ancient dog breed. This shows the ability can arise in...

“flexible control of voice pitch can evolve independently of complex vocal learning in the context of simultaneous group vocalization” (“simultaneous pitch regulation as a precursor of complex vocal learning, not its byproduct”?)
cool @currentbiology.bsky.social study led by A. Patel 🧪🎶

Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased Sex biases in admixture and other demographic processes are recurrent features throughout human evolution. For admixture between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans (AMHs), sex bias has been p...

Very interesting attempt to explain why Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome — implicating mating preferences underlying asymmetric gene flow
By A. Platt, D. Harris & @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social , in @science.org 🧪🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Indeed, very important consideration