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SUBMITTER: Kuhlwilm M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4933530 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20160217 7591
It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside Africa 47,000-65,000 years ago. Here we analyse the genomes of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan from the Altai Mountains in Siberia together with the sequences of chromosome 21 of two Neanderthals from Spain and Croatia. We find that a population that diverged early from other modern humans in Africa contributed genetically to the ancestors of Neanderthals from the Altai Mountains roughly 100,000 years ago. By cont ...[more]