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Other Sapiens. People whos descendants would have been group 3, if a descendant population had survived to modern times. 90% of the DNA for groups 2 & 3 comes
by dalbasal 5y ago
Other Sapiens. People whos descendants would have been group 3, if a descendant population had survived to modern times.
90% of the DNA for groups 2 & 3 comes from those 1000-10,000 individuals. A small smattering from neanderthals denisovans and ghosts. What's the rest?
There were anatomically modern humans outside of sub-saharan africa at some point. They just don't have descendants. But, my question applies either way. What matters is that they descend from groups outside of the funnel group, not where they lived.
- valarauko 5y ago> 90% of the DNA for groups 2 & 3 comes from those 1000-10,000 individuals. A small smattering from neanderthals denisovans and ghosts. What's the rest? That's not my understanding of the text. Other than the 2-5% Neanderthal & Denisovan contributions, the rest of our (ie, for non-Africans) ancestry arises entirely from this single group of 1-10k, not 90%. Perhaps you're confusing it with this statement? > ... only 1,000-10,000 lucky humans made it through the impossibly narrow neck. Our best (always provisional) models suggest they dwindled from an earlier population maybe 10 times bigger. So this round of cuts diminished the breeding pool by 90%.