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Something old, something borrowed: Admixture and adaptation in human evolution

2018-03-29

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Almost a decade ago, the sequencing of ancient DNA from archaic humans - Neanderthals and Denisovans - revealed that modern and archaic humans interbred at least twice during the Pleistocene. The field of human paleogenomics has now turned its attention towards understanding the nature of this genetic legacy in the gene pool of present-day humans. What exactly did modern humans obtain from interbreeding with Neand...

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Literature Corpus work: 494a7f9c-8442-5e8b-b434-f82fce618514
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26782v2

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