Organization: John Timmer
Location: Global
Source: John Timmer
When the history of our ancestry is written, the fact that we’ve interbred with some of our closest relatives, the Neanderthals and Denisovans, will have a central role. And it will be tempting to write it as a very tidy story: Once we got genomes from these other groups, it was possible to identify the sequences in our genomes that we shared with them. But in reality, as scientists started poking large enough collections of data, there were regular hints of some strange ancestry in our genom…
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