Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD)
The Ancient DNA Laboratory is a new research initiative of the University
of Adelaide, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences aimed at studying
evolution and environmental change through time using preserved genetic
records in human, animal, plant and sedimentary material. Key interests
include molecular studies of evolutionary processes in population genetics,
phylogenetics and phylogeography, molecular clocks, and a variety of uses
of temporally distributed DNA sequences.
On-going international projects include the extinctions of megafauna, impacts
of climate change, human evolution, speciation processes, and the evolutionary
relationships of extinct species such as Ice Age brown bears, bison, horses,
and cave lions, New Zealand moa, as well as ancient humans, Neandertals
and Flores homonoids.
A major initiative is the study of human evolution, and we are the sole
research centre for ancient DNA research in the 'Genographic
Project' funded by the National Geographic Society and Waitt Family
Foundation, which aims to characterise large numbers of mitochondrial and
nuclear markers in a broad survey of human populations around the world.
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