Niall Cooke
niallcooke.bsky.social
Niall Cooke
@niallcooke.bsky.social
Ancient geneticist. Working as a postdoctoral researcher with MPI-EVA, Leipzig. Formerly of Trinity College Dublin. Big in Japan. You may know me from my appearance on a Spanish travel show segment on the "Irish Breakfast".
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Also check out the dispatch by Shigeki Nakagome: www.cell.com/current-biol..., and (of course) our new preprint on the genome of a 200,000 year old Denisovan www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Human evolution: Tracing ancient journeys through Denisovan DNA
Variation in Denisovan ancestry across East Asia reflects complex demography and multiple introgression waves. A new study reports that the Jomon population, early diverged ancient hunter-gatherers…
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM