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    • DNA from Mysterious 'Denisovans' Helped Modern Humans Survive

      1.9 and 3.4 percent

      • Whereas about 1.7 percent of the genomes of the Melanesians came from Neanderthals, between about 1.9 and 3.4 percent of their genomes came from Denisovans, according to the study.
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      DNA from Mysterious 'Denisovans' Helped Modern Humans Survive

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  3. www.nature.com › articles › s41576/023/00643-4More than a decade of genetic research on the Denisovans - Nature

    Sep 18, 2023 · Denisovans, a group of now extinct humans who lived in Eastern Eurasia in the Middle and Late Pleistocene, were first identified from DNA sequences just over a decade ago. Only ten fragmentary...

  4. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesExcavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of ...

    Apr 4, 2016 · Using an f4 statistic (14, 15, 17), we find significant evidence of Denisovan ancestry (Z > 4) in our Melanesian samples, with admixture proportions varying between 1.9 and 3.4% (Fig. 1D and table S4).

    • Benjamin Vernot, Serena Tucci, Serena Tucci, Janet Kelso, Joshua G. Schraiber, Aaron B. Wolf, Rachel...
    • 10.1126/science.aad9416
    • 2016
    • 2016/04/04

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  6. www.science.org › doi › 10Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the ... - Science

    Mar 17, 2016 · Vernot et al. surveyed archaic genomic sequences in a worldwide sample of modern humans, including 35 individuals from the Melanesian Islands. All non-African genomes surveyed contained Neandertal DNA, but a significant Denisovan component was found only in the Melanesians.

    • Benjamin Vernot, Serena Tucci, Serena Tucci, Janet Kelso, Joshua G. Schraiber, Aaron B. Wolf, Rachel...
    • 2016

  7. phys.org › news › 2016-03-world-neanderthalA world map of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in modern ...

    Mar 28, 2016 · The results showed that individuals from Oceania possess the highest percentage of archaic ancestry and south Asians possess more Denisovan ancestry than previously believed. This reveals ...

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  8. phys.org › news › 2016-03-world-neanderthalA world map of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry in modern ...

    March 28 2016. This map shows the proportion of the genome inferred to be Denisovan in ancestry in diverse non-Africans. The color scale is not linear to allow saturation of the high Denisova...

  9. www.cell.com › cell › abstractThe genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and ...

    Modern human ancestors diverged from the ancestors of Neandertals and Denisovans about 600,000 years ago. Until about 40,000 years ago, these three groups existed in parallel, occasionally met, and exchanged genes.

  10. www.cell.com › cell › pdfThe genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and ...

    A group of humans diverged from the ancestors of modern hu-mans some 600,000 years ago in Africa. Members of that group eventually left Africa and become Neandertals in western and Denisovans in eastern Eurasia, respectively.