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Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals

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  • Martin Kuhlwilm

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • Ilan Gronau

    (Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC))

  • Melissa J. Hubisz

    (Cornell University)

  • Cesare de Filippo

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • Javier Prado-Martinez

    (Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC))

  • Martin Kircher

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    University of Washington)

  • Qiaomei Fu

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    Harvard Medical School
    Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IVPP, CAS)

  • Hernán A. Burbano

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology)

  • Carles Lalueza-Fox

    (Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC))

  • Marco de la Rasilla

    (Área de Prehistoria, Universidad de Oviedo)

  • Antonio Rosas

    (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC)

  • Pavao Rudan

    (Anthropology Center of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

  • Dejana Brajkovic

    (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology)

  • Željko Kucan

    (Anthropology Center of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

  • Ivan Gušic

    (Anthropology Center of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts)

  • Tomas Marques-Bonet

    (Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC)
    Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
    Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CRG-CNAG))

  • Aida M. Andrés

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • Bence Viola

    (University of Toronto
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • Svante Pääbo

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • Matthias Meyer

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

  • Adam Siepel

    (Cornell University
    Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor)

  • Sergi Castellano

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Abstract

It is known that there was gene flow from Neanderthals to modern humans around 50,000 years ago; now, analysis of a Neanderthal genome from the Altai Mountains in Siberia reveals evidence of gene flow 100,000 years ago in the other direction—from early modern humans to Neanderthals.

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  • Martin Kuhlwilm & Ilan Gronau & Melissa J. Hubisz & Cesare de Filippo & Javier Prado-Martinez & Martin Kircher & Qiaomei Fu & Hernán A. Burbano & Carles Lalueza-Fox & Marco de la Rasilla & Antonio Ros, 2016. "Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals," Nature, Nature, vol. 530(7591), pages 429-433, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:530:y:2016:i:7591:d:10.1038_nature16544
    DOI: 10.1038/nature16544
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