If you need more exciting news about Denisovans, check out our paper on Denisovan ancestry in modern humans through time, out today in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...! #Denisovan #ancientDNA

An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry

Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their ancestry from a deep lineage…

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The second paper is a systematic survey of Neandertal ancestry through time; a joint effort with @moorjanipriya.bsky.social ya.bsky.social’s lab at UC Berkeley, co-led by @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and Manjusha Chintalapati. Leo has a great summary of our main findings here:

Leonardo Iasi@leonardoiasi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The first paper, lead by @arevsumer.bsky.social, Kay Prüfer and Johannes Krause, describes some amazing new genomes from Ranis and Zlaty Kun. See Arev’s write-up here:

Arev P. Sümer@arevsumer.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am very happy to share our new paper on the genetics of some of the first modern humans who ever lived in Europe! We sequenced nuclear DNA from 13 specimens from Ranis in Germany, and found that they belonged to at least 6 individuals. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1/n)

Today is a very big day for our research group, with two of my students, @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and @arevsumer.bsky.social publishing papers on the same day! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Neanderthals #gene-flow

Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans

Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...

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