ceciliapad28@gmail.com or cp654@cam.ac.uk

Research

Research

Publications in Scientific Journals

Below, my publications on scientific journals and the links to all the articles. For more details, visit my Google Scholar page or follow me on ResearchGate.
*Denotes joint first authorship.

2025

Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years

Colucci, M., Leonardi, M., Blinkhorn, J., Irish, S.R., Padilla-Iglesias, C., Kaboth-Bar, S., Gosling, W.D., et al.
bioRxiv.

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2025

Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Xue, Z., Leonardi, M., Paijmans, J.L.A., Colucci, M., Hovhannisyan, A., Maisano-Delser, P., Blanco-Portillo, J., et al.
bioRxiv.

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2025

The ancestors of today’s Bantu speakers, like the rest of humanity, were originally hunter-gatherers

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Portillo, J.B., Pricop, B., Ioannidis, A., Bickel, B., Manica, A., Vinicius, L., et al.
OSF Preprints

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2025

Sexual division of labour shapes hunter-gatherer spatial ranges

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Nganga, D., Amboulou, E., Ruf, J., Ifo, S.A., Vinicius, L., & Migliano, A.B.
bioRxiv.

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2024

Racing the clock: Balancing academia and fertility

Padilla-Iglesias, C & Freeman, E.C.
Science. 386(6725), 1062.

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2024

Population connectivity shapes the distribution and complexity of chimpanzee cumulative culture

Gunasekaram, C., Battiston, F., Sadekar, O., Padilla-Iglesias, C, et al.
Science. 386(6724), 900-925.

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2024

Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures

Campbell, O.L., Padilla-Iglesias, C, Florio, G., & Mace, R.
Evolution and Human Behaviour. 45(6), 106636.

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2024

Hunter-gatherer mobility patterns influence the reconstruction of social networks from archaeological assemblages

Padilla-Iglesias, C, & Bischoff, R.J.
Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports.

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2024

Musical instruments, tools, language and genetic data reveal ancient hunter-gatherer networks

Padilla-Iglesias, C, & Migliano, A.B.
Nature Human Behaviour.

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2024

Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Blanco-Portillo, J., Pricop, B., et al.
Nature Human Behaviour.

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2024

Hunter-gatherer genetics research: Importance and avenues

Padilla-Iglesias, C, & Derkx, I.
Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1-48.

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2023

Ecological drivers of hunter-gatherer lithic technology from the Middle and Later Stone Age in Central Africa

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Grove, M. & Blinkhorn, J.
Quaternary Science Reviews, 322, 108390.

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2023

Insights into drivers of mobility and cultural dynamics of African hunter-gatherers over the past 120,000 years

Zonker, J., Padilla-Iglesias, C*, & Djurdjevac Conrad, N.
Royal Society Open Science, 10(11), 230495.

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2023

Exploring Intra- and Inter-Cultural Differences in Toddler's Time Allocation in a Yucatec Maya and US Community

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Basargekar, A., Woodward A., Shneidman, L.
Social Development, 00, 1-23.

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2023

A description and sensitivity analysis of the ArchMatNet agent-based model

Bischoff, R., & Padilla-Iglesias, C*.
PeerJ. 9:e1419.

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2022

Population interconnectivity over the past 120,000 years explains distribution and diversity of Central African hunter-gatherers

Padilla-Iglesias, C., Atmore, L. M., Olivero, J., Lupo, K., Manica, A., Arango Isaza, E., ... & Migliano, A. B.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(21), e2113936119.

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2021

Evaluating the effects of randomness on missing data in archaeological networks

Bischoff, R., Padilla-Iglesias, C, & Gravel-Miguel, C.
SocArxiv.

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2021

Hunter-gatherer foraging networks promote information transmission

Garg, K., Padilla-Iglesias, C*, Ochoa, N. R., & Knight, V. B.
Royal Society Open Science, 8, 211324.

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2021

The Role of Language in Structuring Social Networks Following Market Integration in a Yucatec Maya Population

Padilla-Iglesias, C, & Kramer, K. L.
Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 656963.

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2021

Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Woodward, A. L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Shneidman, L. A.
Plos One, 16(6), e0252926.

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2020

Geographical and social isolation drive the evolution of Austronesian languages

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Gjesfield, E., & Vinicius, L.
Plos One.

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2020

Language as a marker of ethnic identity among the Yucatec Maya

Padilla-Iglesias, C, Foley, R. A., & Shneidman, L. A.
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2.

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Talks and conferences

Below some talks I have given that are available to watch online.

An Agent-Based Model to explore the Relationship between Archaeological Assemblages, Past Social Networks and Cultural Dynamics

I gave this talk in 2021 at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I discussed the ArchMatNet model we have built to test the relationship between ancient social networks and networks built from archaeological assemblages.

Strategic Responses in Language Use and Ethnolinguistic Reasoning to Changing Socio-Ecologies: Insights from the Yucatec Maya

I gave this talk in 2020 at the University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series and a similar one in 2021 at the SOAS Linguistics Seminar on some of the research I have been doing in the Yucatán Peninsula since 2019.

Domain-specific Drivers of Cultural Diversity among Central African Hunter-Gatherers

I presented this poster at the 2022 Royal Society meeting "The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines" held in London. You can view the full poster here.