Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals
oleh: Cosimo Posth, Christoph Wißing, Keiko Kitagawa, Luca Pagani, Laura van Holstein, Fernando Racimo, Kurt Wehrberger, Nicholas J. Conard, Claus Joachim Kind, Hervé Bocherens, Johannes Krause
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2017-07-01 |
Deskripsi
Ancient DNA keeps expanding our understanding of complex genetic relationships between Pleistocene hominins. Here, Posth and colleagues analyse the mitochondrial genome of an archaic human that diverged from other Neanderthals ∼270,000 years ago, providing the minimum age for an African introgression into Neanderthals.