Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES)

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Researcher at IPHES-CERCA in Tarragona, associate professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and associate researcher at the Muséum National d 'Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France)

Researcher at IPHES-CERCA and associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (URV)

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woman

An international team of geneticists and archaeologists has analysed more than 50 ancient Iron Age genomes from an area of southern Britain. Their conclusions are that they belonged to a matrilocal society, in which land was inherited through the female line and husbands moved in with the community of their wives. The results are published in the journal Nature and would be the first such finding in prehistoric Europe.

footprints

At least two hominin species - Homoerectus and Paranthropus boisei- coexisted in Kenya's Turkana Basin around 1.5 million years ago, a study published in Science confirms. The authors describe the first physical evidence of this coexistence in the form of footprints, found at several sites in the area.

Svante Paabo

The Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology to Swedish biologist Svante Pääbo, a specialist in evolutionary genetics, for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution.