Jul 12, 2024 06:41 PM
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https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-and-...we-thought
EXCERPT: A 2022 paper found that the Neanderthal population was absorbed into that of Homo sapiens. The research of Li and his colleagues validates this notion, and several other curious findings, such as the disappearing Neanderthal Y chromosome.
"The assimilation of Neanderthals into modern human populations as they spread throughout Eurasia would have effectively increased the size of modern human populations while simultaneously decreasing the size of an already at-risk Neanderthal population," the team writes.
"Our finding that the effective population size of Neanderthals was likely even smaller than previously estimated would only hasten the assimilation process, and the replacement of the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA in late Neanderthals by modern humans may have marked an irrevocable path toward the disappearance of one of the few remaining hominin lineages that coexisted with modern humans."
The research has been published in Science... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPT: A 2022 paper found that the Neanderthal population was absorbed into that of Homo sapiens. The research of Li and his colleagues validates this notion, and several other curious findings, such as the disappearing Neanderthal Y chromosome.
"The assimilation of Neanderthals into modern human populations as they spread throughout Eurasia would have effectively increased the size of modern human populations while simultaneously decreasing the size of an already at-risk Neanderthal population," the team writes.
"Our finding that the effective population size of Neanderthals was likely even smaller than previously estimated would only hasten the assimilation process, and the replacement of the Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA in late Neanderthals by modern humans may have marked an irrevocable path toward the disappearance of one of the few remaining hominin lineages that coexisted with modern humans."
The research has been published in Science... (MORE - missing details)