Laura and I gave talks at the annual ASHG meeting in Orlando earlier this month on our work to understand how interbreeding with archaic hominins has influenced modern humans and what it can tell us about these groups.

Science, Nature, and several other news outlets covered our talks:

Modern humans lost DNA when they left Africa—but mating with Neandertals brought some back

Geneticists are starting to unravel evolution’s role in mental illness