Human ancestry is complex with ancient DNA

The Combined Landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans: Some present-day humans derive up to ∼5% …of their ancestry from archaic Denisovans, an even larger proportion than the ∼2% from Neanderthals…We developed methods that can disambiguate the locations of segments of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans and applied them to 257 high-coverage genomes … Continue reading Human ancestry is complex with ancient DNA