History Archives - El·lipse

10.05.2021

Machine learning helps tracing the history of migrations in the Bronze Age

Representation of the four letters that code for the genomic information. Credit:

26.04.2021

The human genome: 20 years of history

Colour representation of the genetic mix and structure in the Basque Country; green symbolizes the Basques, while blue and red show mixing with adjacent populations. Credit: André Flores-Bello.

20.04.2021

Invisible barriers determine the uniqueness of the Basque population

Ulises Gonzalez Herrera excavating Playa del Mango in 2018. | Picture by Luis Viera Sanfiel.

12.06.2020

New study illuminates the history of the pre-Columbian settlement of the Caribbean

Male lion at the Copenhagen Zoo in April 2014. | Picture by Ross Barnett, researcher at the GLOBE Institute and co-author of the study.

18.05.2020

Researchers analyze the evolutionary history of the lion, key to its conservation in the future

Both modern and ancient DNA analysis shows a clear separation of Basques, Gascons and Bretons from the rest of French populations. | Picture by slon_dot_pics from Pexels.

24.04.2020

Insights into the genetic history of France

Gran Dolina cave site, Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). | Picture by José María Bermúdez de Castro, scientific Co-director of the excavations in Atapuerca and co-corresponding author on the paper.

20.04.2020

Scientists recover oldest ever human molecular evidence to date

Metamorphosis is considered one of the most innovative processes in the evolution of insects. | Picture taken from the cover of the book "Insect Metamorphosis: From Natural History to Regulation of Development and Evolution".

27.03.2020

The new book of the insect metamorphosis expert, Xavier Bellés, is out

Skeleton found in La Braña (León). He is one of two brothers found in the same site, the oldest siblings that have been detected genetically. Photo by Julio Manuel Vidal Encinas.

15.03.2019

Reconstructing the genetic map of the last 8,000 years in the Iberian Peninsula