Thursday 10 April 2014

Humans and Neanderthals may Have Interbred

According to a team of researchers, a new method has helped them confirm that humans and Neandertals interbred. The technique can more confidently detect the genetic signatures of interbreeding than previous approaches and will be useful for evolutionary studies of other ancient or rare DNA samples. Study co-author Konrad Lohse, a population geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, said that their approach can distinguish between two subtly different ...

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