Infectious disease defenses among ancient hominid contributions to adaptation of modern humans
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 04:10
in Biology & Nature
During the past decade, our human evolutionary tree has turned into something more resembling an unwieldy bush. Scientists have discovered swapped segments of DNA that we shared from mating between two other hominids, Neanderthals and Denisovans, which were first sequenced in 2010 and 2014, respectively.