Insights into Modern Human Prehistory Using Ancient Genomes

**~~Ryuk~~** · 10-17-2018, 09:32 AM

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...10X?via%3Dihub

Highlights
Eurasia ∼45–35 ka shows the presence of at least four distinct populations: early Asians and Europeans, as well as populations with ancestry found hardly or not at all in present-day populations.

Europeans from around 34–15 ka show high internal population structure.

Approximately 14–7.5 ka, populations across Eurasia shared genetic similarities, suggesting greater interactions between geographically distant populations.

Ancient modern human genomes support at least two Neanderthal admixture events, one ∼60–50 ka in early ancestors of non-African populations and a second >37 ka related to the Oase 1 individual.

A gradual decline in archaic ancestry in Europeans dating from ∼37 to 14 ka suggests that purifying selection lowered the amount of Neanderthal ancestry first introduced into ancient modern humans.

This is one of the most interesting articles of this year, also it access free.

It seems that from Western Europe to eastern Asia, Paleolithic people have not stopped for more than 10,000 years without mingling with each other.Another proof that pure man never existed.

Nice reads.