Johannes Krause

  • History and migration in the genome
  • What we can learn about the migration of peoples from 5,000 early medieval genomes
  • Geist Heidelberg, Lecture

Migration is not a modern phenomenon. However, little is known about early migratory movements. Biochemist and paleogeneticist Johannes Krause is working to fill these gaps in our knowledge with the help of genetic analyses of prehistoric skeletons. Krause and his team have already examined over 200 genomes to shed light on changes in the genetic composition of early Europeans that were made possible by migration and adaptation. The researchers found evidence of two major migrations and significant changes in the human phenotype over the last ten thousand years.

Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He was involved in deciphering the genetic material of Neanderthals and in 2010 was the first to identify a new human form, Denisova man, using genetic data from a Siberian fossil.

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