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Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brain size gene microcephalin introgressed into Homo sapiens from an archaic Homo lineage.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Nov 2006
Evans Patrick D, Mekel-Bobrov Nitzan, Vallender Eric J, Hudson Richard R, Lahn Bruce T
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At the center of the debate on the emergence of modern humans and their spread throughout the globe is the question of whether archaic Homo lineages contributed to the modern human gene pool, and more importantly, whether such contributions impacted the evolutionary adaptation of our species. A m...
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