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Professor Greger Larson

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Director Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network
Brasenose College
+44 (0)1865 611745
greger.larson@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

Evolutionary Genomics; Ancient DNA; Domestication; Human and Animal dispersal; Phylogenetics.

Research Activites

Current Grants

  • Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/L006979/1)
  • Unifying Domestication and Evolutionary Biology through Ancient DNA (UNDEAD)
  • European Research Council (ERC-2013-StG 337574-UNDEAD)           
  • Deciphering dog domestication through a combined ancient DNA and geometric morphometric approach
  • Natural Environment Research Council, UK (NE/K005243/1 and NE/K003259/1)

Education

  • D. Phil., Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford 2006
  • Ph.D. student, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado 2002
  • M. St., World Archaeology, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Oxford 2000
  • BA., Environment, Economics, & Politics, Claremont McKenna College, California 1996

Links

Key words: bioarchaeology, farming and herding, longue duree, humans and other animals, human evolution, interaction, mobility, all periods, global