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SUMMARY:Ancient DNA studies of early modern humans and late Neanderthals -
  Mateja Hajdinjak (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
DTSTART:20180228T163000Z
DTEND:20180228T173000Z
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CONTACT:Michael Rivera
DESCRIPTION:Over the last few years\, the sequencing and the analyses of a
 rchaic genomes\, as well as genomes of ancient modern humans\, were crucia
 l in our understanding of the origins\, the movements\, and the relatednes
 s among archaic\, past\, and present-day human populations. Whereas genome
 s of present-day humans provide an indirect evidence of the processes that
  have formed them over long periods of time\, ancient DNA provides insight
 s into population history that would otherwise not be accessible. Genome-w
 ide data from both early modern humans and late Neandertals\, spanning the
  Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe\, were obtained through
  recent advances in ancient DNA methodology and have provided better under
 standing of the levels of interaction between the two hominin groups. The 
 recovery of the genome-wide data from an early modern human from Romania\,
  _Oase 1_\, demonstrated that the admixture between modern humans and Nean
 dertals was not limited only to the ancestors of present-day non-Africans\
 , but that probably occurred in Europe at a later point in time. Moreover\
 , our recent recovery of the five late Neandertal genomes enabled the reco
 nstruction of their genetic history by showing that their relatedness can 
 be well predicted by their temporal and spatial distance\, as well as that
  all late Neandertals were equidistantly related to the Neandertals that c
 ontributed to the genomes of present-day and ancient humans.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Henry Wellcome Building\, Division of Biological A
 nthropology\, Fitzwilliam Street\, Cambridge\, CB2 3QG
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