What news from our Prehistory?

Samantha Brunel examining a skull in the high confinement laboratory of the Jacques Monod Institute (CNRS / University of Paris) © Eva-Maria Geigl and Thierry Grange, Jacques Monod Institute (CNR

By: Caroline Lachowsky

What news from our Prehistory? How does paleogenetics (the study of ancient DNA) reveal an ever more bushy humanity? What traces have we kept of all these crossbreeds?  

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Let's go back in time on the DNA traces of our ancestors! And we are not at the end of our surprises because it is a real paleo-genomic revolution which is underway and reveals to us a humanity always bushy and always more mixed: a real meeting pot of which we have kept the traces! But how, starting from a tiny fragment of a phalanx or a piece of tooth and making this ancient DNA speak, do the geneticists manage to reconstruct this abundant prehistory of our / our humanities? What traces remain in us of all these other humans and all our crossbreeding?

With Jean-Jacques Hublin , paleoanthropologist and professor at the Collège de France for his latest discoveries: the new dating of the oldest vestiges of Homo Sapiens in Europe testifies to an early cultural transition in Europe, before 450,000 years ... press release from the Collège de France here

and Eva-Maria Geigl , paleogenetician (Jacques Monod Institute) who will speak to us about the two waves of immigration that France experienced during prehistory .... The CNRS press release here

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