Small Amounts of Archaic Admixture Provide Big Insights into Human History
Author(s) -
Selina Vattathil,
Joshua M. Akey
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.042
Subject(s) - biology , evolutionary biology
Modern humans overlapped in time and space with other hominins, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, and limited amounts of hybridization occurred. Here, we review recent work that has identified archaic hominin sequence that survives in modern human genomes and what these genomic excavations reveal about human evolutionary history.
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