In the Media: New Scientist on Convergent Human Evolution After Farming

I’m grateful to be featured in New Scientist in coverage of recent work on human evolution after the adoption of farming.

The article, “Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming,” reports evidence from more than 7,000 ancient and modern genomes and highlights how selection appears to have acted in parallel across different populations worldwide.

In the piece, I commented on the analytical framework developed by Laura Colbran and colleagues, noting that the method identifies both established and previously unknown genomic regions under selection and takes full advantage of the rapidly growing ancient DNA record.

Read the article on New Scientist · Published March 10, 2026