Chiara Barbieri

This study uses an agent-based model to show that Milankovitch climate cycles and cultural innovations influenced hominin population structure and genetic diversity over the past 1.9 million years.

The paper shows that genetic diversity is inversely correlated with linguistic diversity, with isolation promoting linguistic diversification and contact promoting homogenization.

This study uses paleogenomics to analyze 20 ancient individuals from the Chonos Archipelago, revealing unique genetic clusters and connections to neighboring Indigenous groups.

The paper uses genetic admixture to estimate language contact effects globally, finding shared features between admixed populations and language pairs in the same area.

The paper generates and analyzes 1,288 complete mitochondrial genomes from sub-Saharan Africa to update the understanding of maternal genetic diversity and demographic history.

The paper analyzes acoustic communication rhythms across 98 species, finding that vocalization rhythms are conserved around a 3Hz optimum, suggesting a universal neural constraint.

This study analyzes the genetic structure of 177 individuals from the Andes, Amazonia, and Pacific Coast of South America, revealing complex ancestry patterns and recent gene flow across regions.

The paper investigates the genetic history of southern African populations, finding an eastern African origin for Y-chromosome haplogroup E1b1b and significant sex-biased gene flow during the Bantu expansion.

This paper analyzes Y chromosome sequences from southern African populations to refine the human Y chromosome phylogeny, identifying new haplogroups and estimating older divergence dates.

This study analyzes mtDNA variation among Bantu-speakers in southern Africa to assess genetic differentiation between Eastern and Western Bantu branches and admixture with local populations.