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SUBMITTER: Currat M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC532389 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Currat Mathias M Excoffier Laurent L
PLoS biology 20041130 12
The process by which the Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans between 42,000 and 30,000 before present is still intriguing. Although no Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineage is found to date among several thousands of Europeans and in seven early modern Europeans, interbreeding rates as high as 25% could not be excluded between the two subspecies. In this study, we introduce a realistic model of the range expansion of early modern humans into Europe, and of their competition and p ...[more]