#LivingHumans - Twitter Hashtag

almost 2 years ago

'A history of contact': Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals & other #AncientHumans Using genomes from 2,000 #LivingHumans, 3 #Neanderthals & 1 #Denisovan, a team mapped the #GeneFlow between the #Hominin-Groups over the past 250K Yrs. We now know that for the vast majority of human history, we've had a history of contact between ModernHumans & Neanderthals. The Hominins who are our most direct ancestors split from the Neanderthal family tree about 600K Yrs ago, then evolved our modern physical characteristics about 250K Yrs ago. Eventually ModernHumans just demographically overwhelmed Neanderthals & incorporated them into modern human populations https://t.co/rZHvPlUfmI