Small Amounts of Archaic Admixture Provide Big Insights into Human History

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 2015 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Cell, volume 163, pages 281-284 (issn: 0092-8674,

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Authors: Vattathil, Selina; Akey, Joshua M.;

doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.042

pmid: 26451479

Small Amounts of Archaic Admixture Provide Big Insights into Human History

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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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Keywords

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Genome, Human, Genetics, Medical, Animals, Humans, Hominidae, Selection, Genetic, Biological Evolution, Neanderthals

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