Stephan Schiffels

Stephan Schiffels

Group Leader Population Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Stephan Schiffels is a group leader for population genetics at the Department for Archaeogenetics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His group investigates human history by means of genetics and develops computational methods to model and analyze ancient and modern genomic data.

Articles by: Stephan Schiffels

An artist's rendering of a crumbling wall with strands of DNA juxtaposed on top

Ancient DNA from South Africa rock shelter reveals the same human population stayed there for 9,000 years

By Victoria Gibbon, Joscha Gretzinger, Stephan Schiffels published

Ancient human genomes reconstructed from remains at a southern African rock shelter show remarkable genetic continuity over time.