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Modern humans evolved from an 80-20 mixture of two deep streams

Summary by metafilter.com
Paleoanthropologist John Hawks blogged (August 25) about new genome studies of diverse worldwide populations suggesting most of our ancestry comes from an intermixture far predating that with Neanderthals or Denisovans. 20% of worldwide ancestry goes back 1.5 million years to a group that then split off and experienced a bottleneck but rose again to become 80% of our ancestry. In the meantime it gave Neanderthals and Denisovans as offshoots. The…
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metafilter.com broke the news on Monday, August 31, 2026.
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