Genetic mysteries or things that you would like to get answers for, learn about?

[Roy]

1) We know for a while that Sub-Saharan Africans possess a DNA chunk inherited from mixing with Archaic Humans, and we know it is not Neanderthal or Denisova related. It is some obscure species that we are unable to identify currently.

2) I would like to get a detailed outlook on the autosomal genomic variation and characteristics present in Polish people (comprehensive), especially on those from Silesia and their relation regarding other neighbouring populations.

3) Dark Dna, what is it about? It is though not that much related to humans which people here are mostly concerned about, but still an interesting issue.

https://theconversation.com/introducing-dark-dna-the-phenomenon-that-could-change-how-we-think-about-evolution-82867


4) Also we know very little about the genomic characteristics of people from Prague-Korchak cultures that were Early Slavs inhabiting Central-Eastern Europe who likely made up a significant amount of ancestors of West Slavs like Poles.

[J. Ketch]

Basically the Iron Age and Early Medieval make-up of modern European populations, in roundly accurate percentages. I think that's what the majority of people are most interested in tbh.

[gixajo]

I'm interested right now to know where my paternal haplotype could have come from and when.

[calxpal]

I would like to learn more about how the DNA of ancient Europeans compares to modern European populations and more about migrations in ancient Europe. I would also like to know more details regarding the origin and distribution of my mtDNA.

[Parça do Neymar]

I'm curious about these people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people

I would like to learn more about the exact human lineage too, some early (c. 6~7 MYA) australopithecines may have already been adapted to bipedalism, this is pretty close to the time of the chimpanzee-human divergence, but it's hard to say because of the possibility of hybrid speciation.

[Roy]

I'm curious about these people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Deer_Cave_people

I would like to learn more about the exact human lineage too, some early (c. 6~7 MYA) australopithecines may have already been adapted to bipedalism, this is pretty close to the time of the chimpanzee-human divergence, but it's hard to say because of the possibility of hybrid speciation.

Red Deer Cave people fascinate me. And btw. there are scientists who have shown compelling indications that our and chimp lines have interbred.

[Parça do Neymar]

Red Deer Cave people fascinate me. And btw. there are scientists who have shown compelling indications that our and chimp lines have interbred.

Yeah, their remains look distinct and fairly archaic, but they were still alive not too long ago:


Fossils dated to the Bølling-Allerød warming, between about 14,500 to c. 11,500 years ago, were found in Red Deer Cave (Maludong, Chinese: 马鹿洞) and Longlin Cave, Yunnan Province, in Southwest China.

Neanderthal and Floresiensis were already gone by that time.

[Roy]

Black Sub-Saharan Africans have a lot of genetic input from ghost Homo populations that were more archaic than Neanderthals according to recent studies. My money is on H. heidelbergensis as a source.