The “Human Origins: Excellence Cluster of Integrative Human Origins Studies” is a newly started Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen. It focuses on the comprehensive, bio-cultural investigation of human evolution, to be examined through the integration of diverse disciplines, diachronically and at different scales throughout the last 5 million years of human evolution. The position will be located in the Genotype-Phenotype Evolution in Space (GPS) Lab, led by Dr Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, and will investigate one of the central questions in human evolution: how past climate shaped the distribution, dynamics, and interactions of hominin populations, and how these processes contributed to the origins and diversity of Homo sapiens. In this project, we will combine population genetics, species distribution models, and palaeoclimate reconstructions to build models of past human population dynamics. The aim is to reconstruct how climatic changes influenced the movements, persistence, and interactions of different hominin groups across Eurasia from the Middle Pleistocene onwards, and how these processes contributed to the exceptional range of H. sapiens, the disappearance of other lineages, and present-day human diversity.
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