Study shows no long-term removal of Neandertal DNA from Europeans
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has found evidence that suggests there has been no long-term removal of Neandertal DNA from modern Europeans. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes using whole-genome simulations to trace the history of Neandertal DNA in the human genome and what they found.