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Harris et al. 2023, “Diverse African genomes reveal selection on ancient modern human introgressions in Neanderthals” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti
by Keysh 2y ago
Harris et al. 2023, “Diverse African genomes reveal selection on ancient modern human introgressions in Neanderthals”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982223013155 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09609...
“… most Neanderthal homologous regions in sub-Saharan African populations originate from migration of AMH [anatomically modern human] populations from Africa to Eurasia ∼250 kya, and subsequent admixture with Neanderthals, resulting in ∼6% AMH ancestry in Neanderthals. These results indicate that there have been multiple migration events of AMHs out of Africa and that Neanderthal and AMH gene flow has been bi-directional.”
This is, admittedly, research published after Slimak’s book came out, and referring to an earlier time period.
- lapcat 2y agoYes, I think his research focuses on a more recent period, and one of the main points of the book is to refute theories about why Neanderthals became extinct, so the 250kya period wouldn't be directly relevant to that. It's interesting that according to https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-and-neanderthals-mated-250000-years-ago-much-earlier-than-thought https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-and-neanderth... "This group of humans died out".