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SUMMARY:Debunking the Neandertal myth - Professor William Amos\, Departmen
 t of Zoology\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20161005T150000Z
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CONTACT:Fiona Roby
DESCRIPTION:The publication of the Neandertal and other archaic human geno
 mes has led to the widespread acceptance that inter-breeding occurred and 
 that modern non-African humans carry a few percent of Neandertal DNA.  How
 ever\, the analysis on which this conclusion is based makes a number of as
 sumptions\, notably that mutation rate is\, and has been\, constant.  Rela
 xing this assumption reveals that a better fitting explanation involves mu
 tation rate slowing as humans left Africa. 
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Department of Veterinary Medicine
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