Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world, Larena et al. (2021)
Highlights
Comprehensive analyses of archaic ancestry among 118 Philippine ethnic groups
Ayta Magbukon display ∼30%–40% greater Denisovan ancestry than Australopapuans
The model is explained by...
Modern humans co-existed and interbred not only with Neanderthals, but also with another species of archaic humans, the mysterious Denisovans. While developing a new genome-analysis method for comparing whole genomes between modern human and Denisovan populations, researchers unexpectedly...
A new paper by Emilia Huerta-Sánchez and colleagues was published in Nature yesterday: Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA.
Abstract
As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered many new environmental conditions, including greater...
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