#1027 João Teixeira: The Evolution, Dispersals, and Interbreeding of Hominins
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Hello, everybody, welcome to a new episode of the Thecentre. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. João Teixeira, he's Australian Research Council Decre fellow at the Evolution of Culture. Cultural Diversity Initiative School of Culture, History and Language at at the Australian National University, and also Scientific Vice Coordinator at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra. He is a population geneticist focusing on the evolution of humans and closely related species. His main research focus. Revolves around human evolution during the Pleistocene, in particular the admixture events between so called modern and archaic humans after the out of Africa and before human colonization of So
So and today we're talking about modern humans, human dispersals, the the Nizovans and then Neanderthals. Balancing selection and some other related topics. So, Doctor Teixeira, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you on. Thank you so much, Ricardo, it's a pleasure to be here. Okay, so let's start here perhaps with a question that I've already asked several times on the show to paleoanthropologists specifically, but
What are modern humans And are a key. humans what does that mean Exactly.
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