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May 2025 – Didcot Cafe Scientifique, Greger Larson, Using Ancient DNA on Ancient Dogs to solves Ancient Domestication Mysteries
20th May 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Didcot Cafe Scientifique
Tuesday 20th May 2025, Cornerstone Arts Centre, 7.30pm – 9pm
Greger Larson – Using Ancient DNA on Ancient Dogs to solves Ancient Domestication Mysteries
We are aware that dogs are the first animal to enter into a domestic relationship with people. What we do not know is when, where, or how many times that process took place. Here I will present some new results that tie together archaeology, isotope analyses, material culture, and ancient DNA as we continue our hunt for the manner and timing of the origins of our best friends.
Greger Larson received his bachelor’s degree in 1996 from Claremont McKenna College, a small liberal arts college in California. He read just about everything Stephen J Gould ever wrote over the following three years while he wandered the deserts of Turkmenistan and worked for an environmental consultancy in Azerbaijan. Deciding that evolution was cooler than oil, Greger studied at Oxford and the University of Colorado before receiving his PhD in Zoology in 2006. He then spent two years in Uppsala, Sweden on an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship before starting a job in the department of archaeology at Durham University. Greger has then moved to Oxford University to become the Director of the Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network Greger where he is continuing his focus on the use of ancient DNA to study the pattern and process of domestication. He rarely wonders what his salary would be had he stuck to oil.