The Predecessors Within .

Benjamin Vernot; Svante Pääbo

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.023

The Predecessors Within .

Cell. 2018 Mar 22;173(1):6-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.023.

Authors

Benjamin Vernot¹, Svante Pääbo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: benjamin_vernot@eva.mpg.de.
² Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address: paabo@eva.mpg.de.

PMID: 29570998
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.023

Abstract

By examining the genomes of present-day people from Asia, researchers show that modern humans met and interbred with Denisovans, distant relatives to Neanderthals, on at least two occasions. As a result, people today carry DNA from two different Denisovan populations.

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MeSH terms

Asia
Family*
Humans