Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias

Great work led by @ceciliapad.bsky.social showing how
cultural norms of exogamy and mobility shape hunter-gatherer genetic evolution
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Most importantly - thank you so much to Dieudrice (in the picture), Eustache and Juliette for walking in the jungle for many hours and many days to make this research possible.

Thank you so much to my lab @eegcam.bsky.social and especially Andrea Manica, as well as to the Human Evolutionary Ecology Group in Zurich, and all the collaborators involved in all the steps of this journey 🥰. I feel very very grateful!

🚨🧬New preprint!🧪🚨"Cultural norms of exogamy and mobility shape hunter-gatherer genetic evolution".

We used demographic, genomic and mobility data from two hunter-gatherer populations to investigate how they mitigate negative fitness consequences of inbreeding.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thank you so much!

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.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag035

#genome #evolution #humanevolution

For for thought from the Moorjani lab!

@pratikkatte.bsky.social and I just released Lorax 🌲, a tool for interactive exploration of biobank-scale ancestral recombination graphs (ARGs).

If you’ve ever wanted to scroll across the ancestries of thousands of genomes… this is for you.

I showed that image this week in one of my lectures indeed (and no Darwin phylogeny) 😅

🧪🦣 Pre-print Tsoupas et al. 2026 Tracing #Neanderthal ancestry patterns through successive population expansions in Europe

"admixture between hunter-gatherers and Neolithic populations was an order of magnitude higher than that between Neanderthals and modern humans"
doi.org/10.64898/202...

🧪🤩Have a look at our new preprint using an agent-based model to explore the issue of how, whether and when can one infer social dynamics from archaeological assemblages🤩🧪

⛰️Drawn to the landscapes where human evolution unfolded in Eastern Africa? Develop your #PhD with #ICArEHB through the #FCT #PhD #Fellowships 2026.
🔗 More info: www.icarehb.com/fct-phd-fell...

#Geoarchaeology #HumanEvolution #Paleoecology #ScienceCareers #PhDLife

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...

Interesting study, and smart approach: "Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

“Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review”

Definitely resonates...
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

The market for marriage - Works in Progress Magazine It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good agricultural surplus, must be in want of a wife.

“If marriage has a nature, it is to be reshaped to fit the world around it. In a world where many of the familiar constraints have disappeared, perhaps all that is keeping us together is love.” worksinprogress.co/issue/marria... fantastic piece on marriage systems by @olkcampbell.bsky.social

Glad that @science.org reposted our article from last year — there’s still a looooooooooooot we need to talk about as a community.

Spent my #WomenInScienceDay doing paperwork for yet another move (albeit one with conditions that are bit more compatible with family planning) 👩🏽‍🔬

The “I” in egalitarianism: Hadza hunter-gatherers averse to inequality primarily when personally unfavorable Abstract. Many economists contend that humans have strong, universal, other-regarding equality preferences with deep evolutionary roots. Indeed, many hunte

📢 New Paper 🚨

Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life.

In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus.

bit.ly/4kvLOwA

For the ABM and networks enthusiasts: Special Issue of Social Networks on "Agent-based Modelling for Social Network Research" - co-ed by Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács and me

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Deadlines
Extended abstracts: 1 April
Full papers: 15 November

Extremely interesting study! And super relevant for some work I’m doing at the moment. However, our institution has lost access to PNAS 😕 any chance you could DM me a copy? Congrats!

Here's another exciting opportunity to join the ERC FORAGER team! This one is a 3-year postdoc on paleoclimate modelling with the fantastic Matt Osman here in @cam.ac.uk, with opportunity for synergies (pun intended 😜) with other team members in archaeology and zoology www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54411/

Job alert in Malta on my ERC funded IslandLab Project for a post excavation research assistant. A bachalor's degree in Archaeology, or related fields is required, ideally with experience working on faunal assemblages and handling bones/fossils, and curating finds.
www.um.edu.mt/media/um/doc...

I am looking for a PhD student to join my new Socio-Eco-Evo group, hosted in Katie Peichel's Evolutionary Ecology Division @ University of Bern. We're offering a fully funded 4-year position, studying social plasticity and behavioral adaptation among stickleback in Greenland. Please share around!

🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

UCL is hiring a Research Fellow in computational phylogenomics. Positions for method developers and data analysts are available. Apply by 9 Feb 2026. Details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=41139&jobTitle=Research+Fellow+in+computational+phylogenomics #postdoc

🚨 6th HAAM-RADIO Webinar
🌍 African Population Demography and Social Organizations of the Past
🗓️ Wed, 28 Jan 2026
Register here:
👉 forms.gle/FuBTTX4wreW4...

#AncientDNA #HumanGenetics #AfricanHistory #HAAM #Webinar
@abinstitute.bsky.social @cesarforteslima.bsky.social
@hildegunnink.bsky.social

PanAF Sessions The Local Organizing Committee is excited that almost 70 sessions and workshops will occur at PanAF Moz 2026. Pan-African Association members and non-members are welcome to submit paper abstracts t…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS!🚨 @lucytimbrell96.bsky.social and I are running a session (S17) at PanAf2026 in Mozambique, titled: Pan-African Homo sapiens evolution: linking processes with data. More info: panaf2026moz.com/panaf-sessio... & submit an abstract: panaf2026moz.com/paper-submis... deadline March 15th

@mikleonardi.bsky.social

@oguzparasayan.bsky.social

Come next Wednesday! 🧬🧪