I presented our research in a poster session at the in-person portion of the conference in Denver and also as a virtual podium presentation in the online portion of the conference. Both versions can be found below.

Poster

Was on display as Poster #54 on Thursday, March 24th 8:00-6:30 in the “Genetics & Genomics: Evolution and Populations” #AABA2022 poster session in the Plaza Foyer, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.

Presentation Video

Was presented and discussed in the “Genetics & Genomics: Adaptation and Complex Traits” #AABA2022 online session on Tuesday, March 29th from 5:00-6:00 pm MDT.

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Image Credits

• Blue Marble: Next Generation+topography+bathymetry. Equirectangular projection. Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory, modified by NordNordWest, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Marble_Next_Generation_%2B_topography_%2B_bathymetry.jpg
• Upper Paleolithic rock art panel. Leang Tedongnge Cave, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Oktaviana, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leang_Tedongnge_rock_art_panel_credit_AA_Oktaviana-01.jpg
• Upper Paleolithic bone flute. Divje Babe, Slovenia. dalbera from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fl%C3%BBte_pal%C3%A9olithique_(mus%C3%A9e_national_de_Slov%C3%A9nie,_Ljubljana)_(9420310527).jpg
• Upper Paleolithic bone flute, Geissenklösterle. José-Manuel Benito Álvarez, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flauta_paleol%C3%ADtica_blanco.jpg
• Serranía de la Lindosa Rock Paintings, northwestern Colombia; Las Dantas panel at Cerro Azul, La Lindosa (arrow points to proposed giant sloth painting). Iriarte et al., CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serrania_de_la_Lindosa_rock_paintings_-_Iriarte_et_al_2022.jpg
• Hopi Pueblo. Kachina doll (Sa’lakwmana), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 9 x 7 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (22.9 x 19.1 x 8.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5543. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5543_transp6238.jpg) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/17012
• The Blue Marble.  NASA Apollo 17, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Blue_Marble.jpg
• Chimpanzee, human reflection. Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chimpanzee_(4407365183).jpg
• One dead and many newborn hippocampal neurons. Confocal microscopy AlmudenaFM, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Death_eyes.jpg
• Artist’s impression of Upper Paleolithic double burial. Sunghir, Russia. Libor Balák, Anthropark http://www.anthropark.wz.cz/gravetta.htm
• Dictyostelium discoideum fruiting bodies and slug. Usman Bashir, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dictyostelium_discoideum_02.jpg