The second paper is a systematic survey of Neandertal ancestry through time; a joint effort with @moorjanipriya.bsky.social ya.bsky.social’s lab at UC Berkeley, co-led by @leonardoiasi.bsky.social and Manjusha Chintalapati. Leo has a great summary of our main findings here:
ya.bsky.xn--socials-d36c
Benjamin Peter
Out today in @sciencemagazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Gene flow from Neanderthals has shaped genetic and phenotypic variation in modern humans. We generated a catalog of Neanderthal ancestry segments in more than 300 genomes spanning the past 50,000 year...
