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DNA From an Unidentified Ancestor Was Passed Down to Humans Living Today

A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor. Melissa Hubisz and Amy Williams of Cornell University and Adam Siepel of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory report these findings in a study published in PLOS Genetics. Roughly 50,000 ...

August 12, 2020

Troy Oakes

Earliest Interbreeding Event Between Ancient Human Populations Discovered

For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle, which seems to be the result of interbreeding. His research untangles millions of years of human evolution by analyzing DNA strands from ancient human species known as hominins. Like many evolutionary geneticists, Rogers compares hominin genomes looking for genetic patterns such as ...

March 1, 2020

Troy Oakes