Multiple deeply divergent Denisovan ancestries in Papuans

GS Jacobs, G Hudjashov, L Saag, P Kusuma… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genome sequences are known for two archaic hominins—Neanderthals and Denisovans—
which interbred with anatomically modern humans as they dispersed out of Africa. We …

[HTML][HTML] Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world

M Larena, J McKenna, F Sanchez-Quinto… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Multiple lines of evidence show that modern humans interbred with archaic Denisovans.
Here, we report an account of shared demographic history between Australasians and …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of human sequence data reveals two pulses of archaic Denisovan admixture

SR Browning, BL Browning, Y Zhou, S Tucci, JM Akey - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Anatomically modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and with a related archaic
population known as Denisovans. Genomes of several Neanderthals and one Denisovan …

Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes

A Bergström, SA McCarthy, R Hui, MA Almarri, Q Ayub… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Large-scale human genome-sequencing studies to date have been limited
to large, metropolitan populations or to small numbers of genomes from each group. Much …

Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals

B Vernot, S Tucci, J Kelso, JG Schraiber, AB Wolf… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Although Neandertal sequences that persist in the genomes of modern humans have been
identified in Eurasians, comparable studies in people whose ancestors hybridized with both …

The combined landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

S Sankararaman, S Mallick, N Patterson, D Reich - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Some present-day humans derive up to∼ 5%[1] of their ancestry from archaic Denisovans,
an even larger proportion than the∼ 2% from Neanderthals [2]. We developed methods that …

Resurrecting surviving Neandertal lineages from modern human genomes

B Vernot, JM Akey - Science, 2014 - science.org
Anatomically modern humans overlapped and mated with Neandertals such that non-
African humans inherit~ 1 to 3% of their genomes from Neandertal ancestors. We identified …

Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago

CM Schlebusch, H Malmström, T Günther, P Sjödin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo
sapiens. We present genome sequences, up to 13x coverage, from seven ancient …

Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

P Skoglund, C Posth, K Sirak, M Spriggs, F Valentin… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The appearance of people associated with the Lapita culture in the South Pacific around
3,000 years ago marked the beginning of the last major human dispersal to unpopulated …

Using hominin introgression to trace modern human dispersals

JC Teixeira, A Cooper - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The dispersal of anatomically modern human populations out of Africa and across much of
the rest of the world around 55 to 50 thousand years before present (ka) is recorded …