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DNA analysis … provides evidence of interbreeding of Neanderthal and Denisovan populations .

Posted on August 23, 2018 Written by Don

Analysis of a small bone excavated at the Denisova Cave in SW Siberia shows that the bone, from a young girl, had DNA from a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother. The father came from a population living locally to the Denisova caves while the mother seems to have come from a group living thousands

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The Viking voyages and their DNA legacy.

Posted on September 29, 2016 Written by Don

DNA analyses carried out on samples from the present day inhabitants of Great Britain and Norway give a good indication of the extent to which the two populations mingled during the Viking era. 'Norwegian' DNA varies between 1% in Wales and Ireland to 29% in Orkney and Shetland, areas which the Vikings basically took over. On the

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Denisovan DNA helps Tibetans survive at high altitudes

Posted on September 9, 2014 Written by Don

Tibetans are adapted to the low oxygen content at the high (>4000 m) altitudes where they live thanks a lower haemoglobin content in their blood which is again due to a specific gene EPAS1. This gene is more or less restricted to Tibetans, for example it is absent in their neighbours the Han Chinese. But

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Recent Posts

  • Diabetes risk in Latin Americans inherited from Neanderthals? January 23, 2021
  • People in the British Isles living in the same areas as in Anglo-Saxon times. January 23, 2021
  • DNA analysis indicates that the islands of the SW Pacific were first populated from East Asia. January 23, 2021
  • Denisovans may have survived up to 15 000 years ago January 23, 2021
  • DNA analysis … provides evidence of interbreeding of Neanderthal and Denisovan populations . August 23, 2018

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