
Stephan Schiffels
Group Leader Population Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Stephan Schiffels is a group leader for population genetics at the Department for Archaeogenetics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His group investigates human history by means of genetics and develops computational methods to model and analyze ancient and modern genomic data.
Latest articles by Stephan Schiffels

Ancient DNA from South Africa rock shelter reveals the same human population stayed there for 9,000 years
By Victoria Gibbon, Joscha Gretzinger, Stephan Schiffels published
Ancient human genomes reconstructed from remains at a southern African rock shelter show remarkable genetic continuity over time.
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