Lachie Scarsbrook

This study shows that brain size reduction in dogs began in the Late Neolithic, 5,000 years ago, with a 46% decrease compared to prehistoric wolves.

The paper uses genomic and morphometric analyses to show that pigs in Wallacea and Oceania have diverse ancestries linked to Austronesian dispersal 4,000-3,000 years ago.

This study imputes ancient dog and wolf genomes to analyze inbreeding history over 10,000 years, finding lower inbreeding in ancient populations and associations between low ROH regions and olfaction/immune genes.