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Ancient DNA, Domestication, Metagenomics, P.I. of the ERC CoG FELIX
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Scientific American
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โHe was probably a budding hunter still learning his skills when this happened,โ the lead scientist said
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A foraging teenager was mauled by a bear 27,000 years ago, skeleton shows
The remains of a teenage boy who lived around 27,000 years ago suggest he was attacked by a cave bearโsome of the first direct evidence of a predator attacking an ancient human
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-foraging-teenager-was-mauled-by-a-bear-27-000-years-ago-skeleton-shows/
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ERC Felix
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We have updated our website with a selection of interviews and media coverage of our article!
www.ercfelix.com/public_outre...
...and in our News section you can find a free-access reprint link to the paper
www.ercfelix.com/new-paper-ou...
@erc.europa.eu
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Public outreach - Ercfelix
https://www.ercfelix.com/public_outreach/
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Davide Bozzi
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Treponemal diseases might have been with us much longer than previously thought! In our recent study, we used ancient DNA to reconstruct a 5,500-year-old ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฎ genome, revealing a previously unknown divergent subspecies. You can check it out here:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A 5500-year-old Treponema pallidum genome from Sabana de Bogotรก, Colombia
Treponematosis, a bacterial infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies and T. carateum (yaws, bejel, syphilis, pinta), has afflicted humans for millennia. Despite paleopathological evidence and...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3020
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Claudio Ottoni
ERC Felix
2 months ago
๐จNEW pub in
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!!!๐จ ๐โโฌ๐ The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2,000 years ago ๐โโฌ๐ Our article provides novel evidence suggesting new hypotheses about the history of domestic cats!๐งฌ ๐งต
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Claudio Ottoni
2 months ago
After a four-year journey, my PhD work is out in
@science.org
Endless gratitude to the amazing
@felix-erc.bsky.social
team, all coauthors and collaborators, and my loved ones. Without you all this couldn't be real! ๐๐ฑโจ
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@nationalgeographic.bsky.social
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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642
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Greger Larson
2 months ago
What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs? Can I interest you in some cats? Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia? As you wish! Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell Genomics
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642
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Roland Pease
2 months ago
Talking about this on
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Weekend tomorrow.
add a skeleton here at some point
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When did cats become domesticated? New DNA evidence changes the story.
A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/when-did-cats-become-domesticated
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Nancy Lucรญa Lรณpez
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Cats DNA
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The Incredible, Unlikely Story of How Cats Became Our Pets
Two new studies dig into the long, curving path that cats took toward domestication
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-incredible-unlikely-story-of-how-cats-became-our-pets/
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The Independent
2 months ago
Analysis of ancient DNA rewrites origin story of domestic cats
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Analysis of ancient DNA rewrites origin story of domestic cats
Analysis of ancient DNA rewrites origin story of domestic cats
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cats-europe-roman-era-b2874039.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764289207
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Claudio Ottoni
Science Magazine
2 months ago
The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanityโs most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat. Learn more:
https://scim.ag/44kov1S
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Well, finally the cat is out of the bag
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! (or at least part of a very complex story)๐๐งฌ. Great job from
@mdemartino.bsky.social
and my team
@felix-erc.bsky.social
. Huge thanks to all the colleagues and the institutes involved!
@erc.europa.eu
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The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2642
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