Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry
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Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. / Hajdinjak, Mateja; Mafessoni, Fabrizio; Skov, Laurits; Vernot, Benjamin; Hübner, Alexander; Fu, Qiaomei; Essel, Elena; Nagel, Sarah; Nickel, Birgit; Richter, Julia; Moldovan, Oana Teodora; Constantin, Silviu; Endarova, Elena; Zahariev, Nikolay; Spasov, Rosen; Welker, Frido; Smith, Geoff M; Sinet-Mathiot, Virginie; Paskulin, Lindsey; Fewlass, Helen; Talamo, Sahra; Rezek, Zeljko; Sirakova, Svoboda; Sirakov, Nikolay; McPherron, Shannon P; Tsanova, Tsenka; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; Peter, Benjamin M; Meyer, Matthias; Skoglund, Pontus; Kelso, Janet; Pääbo, Svante.
I: Nature, Bind 592, Nr. 7853, 2021, s. 253-257.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry
AU - Hajdinjak, Mateja
AU - Mafessoni, Fabrizio
AU - Skov, Laurits
AU - Vernot, Benjamin
AU - Hübner, Alexander
AU - Fu, Qiaomei
AU - Essel, Elena
AU - Nagel, Sarah
AU - Nickel, Birgit
AU - Richter, Julia
AU - Moldovan, Oana Teodora
AU - Constantin, Silviu
AU - Endarova, Elena
AU - Zahariev, Nikolay
AU - Spasov, Rosen
AU - Welker, Frido
AU - Smith, Geoff M
AU - Sinet-Mathiot, Virginie
AU - Paskulin, Lindsey
AU - Fewlass, Helen
AU - Talamo, Sahra
AU - Rezek, Zeljko
AU - Sirakova, Svoboda
AU - Sirakov, Nikolay
AU - McPherron, Shannon P
AU - Tsanova, Tsenka
AU - Hublin, Jean-Jacques
AU - Peter, Benjamin M
AU - Meyer, Matthias
AU - Skoglund, Pontus
AU - Kelso, Janet
AU - Pääbo, Svante
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago1-5, but the extent of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago6, and their relationship to the broader expansion of modern humans outside Africa are poorly understood. Here we present genome-wide data from three individuals dated to between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria1,2. They are the earliest Late Pleistocene modern humans known to have been recovered in Europe so far, and were found in association with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic artefact assemblage. Unlike two previously studied individuals of similar ages from Romania7 and Siberia8 who did not contribute detectably to later populations, these individuals are more closely related to present-day and ancient populations in East Asia and the Americas than to later west Eurasian populations. This indicates that they belonged to a modern human migration into Europe that was not previously known from the genetic record, and provides evidence that there was at least some continuity between the earliest modern humans in Europe and later people in Eurasia. Moreover, we find that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history, confirming that the first European modern humans mixed with Neanderthals and suggesting that such mixing could have been common.
AB - Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago1-5, but the extent of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago6, and their relationship to the broader expansion of modern humans outside Africa are poorly understood. Here we present genome-wide data from three individuals dated to between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria1,2. They are the earliest Late Pleistocene modern humans known to have been recovered in Europe so far, and were found in association with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic artefact assemblage. Unlike two previously studied individuals of similar ages from Romania7 and Siberia8 who did not contribute detectably to later populations, these individuals are more closely related to present-day and ancient populations in East Asia and the Americas than to later west Eurasian populations. This indicates that they belonged to a modern human migration into Europe that was not previously known from the genetic record, and provides evidence that there was at least some continuity between the earliest modern humans in Europe and later people in Eurasia. Moreover, we find that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history, confirming that the first European modern humans mixed with Neanderthals and suggesting that such mixing could have been common.
U2 - 10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3
DO - 10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 33828320
VL - 592
SP - 253
EP - 257
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
SN - 0028-0836
IS - 7853
ER -
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