The main aim of this project is to explore past biodiversity in North-eastern Scotland using metabarcode (e.g., 12S) and metagenomic sequencing of ancient DNA extracted from lake sediments and peat bogs, with special emphasis on the period spanning the 5th to 11th centuries AD (also known as the ...
Today Homo sapiens is a phenomenally successful, global species and the sole survivor of the human family tree, yet the adaptations that enabled this success are still poorly understood. Hybridisation with extinct human species during our expansion may have been one way of rapidly adapting to new ...