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Disease and introgression explain the long-lasting contact zone of Modern Humans and Neanderthals and its eventual destabilization

2018-12-13

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Neanderthals and modern humans both occupied the Levant for tens of thousands of years prior to modern humans’ spread into the rest of Eurasia and their replacement of the Neanderthals. That the inter-species boundary remained geographically localized for so long is a puzzle, particularly in light of the rapidity of its subsequent movement. We propose that disease dynamics can explain the localization and persiste...

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Literature Corpus work: 9bad05f5-f0d8-553e-a380-da4579609451
DOI: 10.1101/495515

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