Contact Information
607 S Mathews Ave.
M/C 148
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Anthropology
Professor, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Professor, American Indian Studies Program
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Recent Publications
Dong, Y., & Malhi, R. S. (Accepted/In press). Ancient DNA offers clues about mysterious prehistoric settlement in China. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03593-5
de Flamingh, A., Gnoske, T. P., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Simeonovski, V. A., Gitahi, N., Mwebi, O., Agwanda, B. R., Catchen, J. M., Roca, A. L., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Compacted hair in broken teeth reveals dietary prey of historic lions. Current Biology, 34(21), 5104-5111.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.029
de Flamingh, A., Gnoske, T. P., Rivera-Colón, A. G., Simeonovski, V. A., Kerbis Peterhans, J. C., Yamaguchi, N., Witt, K. E., Catchen, J., Roca, A. L., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Genomic analysis supports Cape Lion population connectivity prior to colonial eradication and extinction. Journal of Heredity, 115(2), 155-165. Article esad081. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esad081
Lanoë, F., Reuther, J., Fields, S., Potter, B., Smith, G., McKinney, H., Halffman, C., Holmes, C., Mills, R., Crass, B., Frome, R., Hildebrandt, K., Sattler, R., Shirar, S., de Flamingh, A., Kemp, B. M., Malhi, R., & Witt, K. E. (2024). Late Pleistocene onset of mutualistic human/canid (Canis spp.) relationships in subarctic Alaska. Science Advances, 10(49), Article eads1335. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads1335
Rider, D. F., Wolf, A. C. E., Murray, J., De Flamingh, A., Dos Santos, A. L. C., Lanoë, F., Zedeño, M. N., DeGiorgio, M., Lindo, J., & Malhi, R. S. (2024). Genomic analyses correspond with deep persistence of peoples of Blackfoot Confederacy from glacial times. Science Advances, 10(14), Article eadl6595. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl6595