Earliest ancient human interbreeding event discovered
For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary
puzzle. His research untangles millions of years of human evolution by analyzing DNA
strands from ancient human species known as hominins. “We’ve never known about this
episode of interbreeding and we’ve never been able to estimate the size of the super-archaic
population,” said Alan Rogers, lead author of the study. “We’re just shedding light
on an interval on human evolutionary history that was previously completely dark.”
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Mysterious ‘ghost’ populations had multiple trysts with human ancestors