The fossil pits look nearly identical to those of small peaches grown today, indicating that the fruit evolved naturally hundreds of thousands of years before the origin of modern humans. (sciencemag.org)
He, nonetheless, emphasizes that tests of the DNA before and after sequencing was done revealed no evidence of modern human DNA. (sciencemag.org)
All told, the new study identifies 126 different places in the genome where genes inherited from those archaic humans remain at unusually high frequency in the genomes of modern humans around the world. (sciencedaily.com)