"West Africans Carry DNA from Mysterious Archaic Hominin" Topic
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| Tango01 | 15 Apr 2020 12:43 p.m. PST |
"Contemporary people who have ancestors from Europe, Asia, and Oceania carry DNA from two archaic species, Neanderthals and Denisovans, making up 1-4% of their genome. These genetic segments arrived in modern humans through introgression, the process by which members of two populations mate, and the resulting hybrid individuals then breed with members of the parent populations. Recent studies have shown that, though modern West Africans do not have Neanderthal or Denisovan ancestry, there may have been introgression by other ancient hominins in their past…"
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| Max Schnell | 15 Apr 2020 12:52 p.m. PST |
Ancestral DNA always fascinates me. Interesting. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 15 Apr 2020 4:16 p.m. PST |
Exciting news for those of us with West African DNA*!  * OK, only 2%, could be a data error LOL |
| Tango01 | 16 Apr 2020 1:12 p.m. PST |
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