Rasmus Nielsen

Migrations facilitated the cultural diffusion of megaliths in Neolithic Europe

The paper investigates whether the spread of megaliths in Neolithic Europe was due to population movements or cultural diffusion, finding that both factors interacted through trade networks.

Environmental DNA Reveals Reykjavik's Human and Ecological History

This study uses environmental DNA from Lake Tjornin to challenge the narrative of Norse-induced environmental collapse in Reykjavik, showing dynamic human-environment interactions shaped by both cultural practices and external stressors.

Assessing the combined performance of supervised learning and spike-in constructs for bias correction in eDNA metabarcoding

This study evaluates supervised learning models for bias correction in eDNA metabarcoding, showing significant performance improvements with experiment-specific data.

The Genetic Cost of Neanderthal Introgression

The paper estimates Neanderthal fitness relative to humans and shows introgression reduction around genes is due to mutational load, not epistasis, and predicts residual fitness costs in non-Africans.

Phylogenetic ANOVA: The Expression Variance and Evolution (EVE) model for quantitative trait evolution

The paper introduces the EVE model to analyze quantitative trait evolution, showing it improves accuracy over standard ANOVA in detecting expression divergence and diversity across species.

Detecting recent selective sweeps while controlling for mutation rate and background selection

The paper improves the detection of recent selective sweeps by incorporating fixed differences and modeling background selection, enhancing power and localization accuracy.

The origin and evolution of maize in the American Southwest

This study uses ancient population genomic techniques to trace the origin and evolution of maize in the American Southwest, identifying two diffusion routes and genetic adaptations to local environments.

Reticulate speciation and adaptive introgression in the Anopheles gambiae species complex

This paper investigates reticulate speciation and adaptive introgression in the Anopheles gambiae species complex, finding evidence of gene flow and adaptation across species and subgroups.

Fitting the Balding-Nichols model to forensic databases

The paper analyzes error trends in genotype probability estimates using the Balding-Nichols model applied to forensic databases.