Marco Vidal Cordasco
- Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow
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I joined the Evolutionary Ecology Group in 2026 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the EvoAdapta Group at the University of Cantabria and completed my PhD at the National Research Centre on Human Evolution (Universidad de Burgos).
I am an archaeologist specialising in human–environment interactions during the Palaeolithic, employing paleoecological modelling to integrate data from archaeological sites and natural archives. In the coming years, my research will investigate the impact of biodiversity loss on human carrying capacity during the Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene transition in Iberia.
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Vidal-Cordasco, M.*, & Marín-Arroyo, A. B.* (2025). Novel dynamics of human-carnivore interactions linked to the arrival of H. sapiens in Europe. Science Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2025.11.055
Vidal-Cordasco, M.*, Terlato, G., Ocio, D., & Marín-Arroyo, A. B. (2023). Neanderthal coexistence with Homo sapiens in Europe was affected by herbivore carrying capacity. Science Advances, 9(38), eadi4099.
Vidal-Cordasco, M.*, Ocio, D., Hickler, T., Marín-Arroyo, A.B.*. (2022) Ecosystem productivity affected the spatiotemporal disappearance of Neanderthals in Iberia. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01861-5
Full list of publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-0633