Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution
Cecilia Padilla‐Iglesias, Zhe Xue, Michela Leonardi, Manolo Fernandez Perez, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Margherita Colucci, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Javier Blanco-Portillo, Alexander G. Ioannidis, Giulio Lucarini, Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni, Andrew W. Kandel, Manuel Will, Emily Yuko Hallett, , Andrea Manica
The paper models Homo sapiens evolution as a Pan-African metapopulation, showing how climate and connectivity shaped genetic and morphological diversity over 200,000 years.
bioRxiv · May 22, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology