Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

Autor: Jean-Jacques Hublin, Benjamin M. Peter, Qiaomei Fu, Nikolay Zahariev, Mateja Hajdinjak, Silviu Constantin, Sarah Nagel, Oana Teodora Moldovan, Birgit Nickel, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Laurits Skov, Tsenka Tsanova, Benjamin Vernot, Helen Fewlass, Rosen Spasov, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, Lindsey Paskulin, Julia Richter, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Pontus Skoglund, Geoff M. Smith, Elena Endarova, Elena Essel, Frido Welker, Shannon P. McPherron, Janet Kelso, Nikolay Sirakov, Alexander Hübner, Sahra Talamo, Zeljko Rezek, Svoboda Sirakova
Přispěvatelé: Hajdinjak M., Mafessoni F., Skov L., Vernot B., Hubner A., Fu Q., Essel E., Nagel S., Nickel B., Richter J., Moldovan O.T., Constantin S., Endarova E., Zahariev N., Spasov R., Welker F., Smith G.M., Sinet-Mathiot V., Paskulin L., Fewlass H., Talamo S., Rezek Z., Sirakova S., Sirakov N., McPherron S.P., Tsanova T., Hublin J.-J., Peter B.M., Meyer M., Skoglund P., Kelso J., Paabo S.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nature
Hajdinjak, M, Mafessoni, F, Skov, L, Vernot, B, Hübner, A, Fu, Q, Essel, E, Nagel, S, Nickel, B, Richter, J, Moldovan, O T, Constantin, S, Endarova, E, Zahariev, N, Spasov, R, Welker, F, Smith, G M, Sinet-Mathiot, V, Paskulin, L, Fewlass, H, Talamo, S, Rezek, Z, Sirakova, S, Sirakov, N, McPherron, S P, Tsanova, T, Hublin, J-J, Peter, B M, Meyer, M, Skoglund, P, Kelso, J & Pääbo, S 2021, ' Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry ', Nature, vol. 592, no. 7853, pp. 253-257 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3
ISSN: 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03335-3
Popis: 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.
Genome-wide data for the three oldest known modern human remains in Europe, dated to around 45,000 years ago, shed light on early human migrations in Europe and suggest that mixing with Neanderthals was more common than is often assumed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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