Better support for a small effective population size of Neandertals and a long shared history of Neandertals and Denisovans
Better support for a small effective population size of Neandertals and a long shared history of Neandertals and Denisovans
F. Mafessoni,Kay Prüfer
2017 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1716918114
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 20 Citations
TLDR
The sharing of derived alleles among the genomes of Africans, non-Africans, a Neandertal, and a Denisovan is compared to infer the demographic history of archaic humans and it is estimated that the effective population size of Ne andertals was ∼15,000 individuals and that NeAndertals and Denisovans separated from each other shortly after their ancestor separated from modern humans.