Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture.

ABSTRACT: Modern humans arrived in Europe more than 45,000 years ago, overlapping at least 5,000 years with Neanderthals^1-4. Limited genomic data from these early modern humans have shown that at least two genetically distinct groups inhabited Europe, represented by Zlatý kůň, Czechia³ and Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria². Here we deepen our understanding of early modern humans by analysing one high-coverage genome and five low-coverage genomes from approximately 45,000-year-old remains from Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany⁴, and a further high-coverage genome from Zlatý kůň. We show that distant familial relationships link the Ranis and Zlatý kůň individuals and that they were part of the same small, isolated population that represents the deepest known split from the O

SUBMITTER: Sumer AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11839475 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature