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Latest Publications
Re-evaluating phoneme frequencies. Frontiers in Psychology 11, 570895 (2020)
Three North African dust source areas and their geochemical fingerprint. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 116645 (2020)
Do I have something in my teeth? The trouble with genetic analyses of diet from archaeological dental calculus. Quaternary International (2020)
A systematic investigation of human DNA preservation in medieval skeletons. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 18225 (2020)
Why do we share?: food sharing with strangers might be unique for humans, Psychology today, (2020)
Evaluating Bayesian Radiocarbon-dated Event Count (REC) models for the study of long-term human and environmental processes. Journal of Quaternary Science n/a (n/a), 3256 (2020)
Comparative Genome Analysis of 33 Chlamydia Strains Reveals Characteristic Features of Chlamydia Psittaci and Closely Related Species. Pathogens 9 (11), 899 (2020)
Megadrought and cultural exchange along the proto-silk road. Science Bulletin, 2020.10.011 (2020)