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Differential base-sharing between humans and Neanderthals: inter-breeding or greater mutability in heterozygotes?

2019-06-07

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The idea that humans interbred with other Hominins, most notably Neanderthals, is now accepted as fact. The finding of hybrid skeletons shows that fertile matings did occur. However, inferences about the size of the resulting legacy assume that back-mutations are rare enough to be ignored and that mutation rate does not vary. In reality, back-mutations are common, mutation rate does vary between populations and th...

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Literature Corpus work: c62c4af3-66fb-5913-acaf-71b3bd1927ba
DOI: 10.1101/664581

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