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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 ...

Troy Oakes

Interbreeding between early groups.