Sentences with phrase «modern eurasian»
A 2015 study in Genome Research, for example, estimated that 25 percent of modern Eurasian wolf DNA actually comes from interbreeding with domesticated dogs.
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Earlier studies have shown that one to six percent of modern Eurasian genomes were inherited from ancient hominins, such as Neanderthal or Denisovans.
One Neanderthal gene found in modern Eurasians may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes.
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The modern definition makes Kazakhstan yet another Eurasian country.
Cave lions, which were similar in appearance to modern Afro - Eurasian lions, prowled the Pleistocene with creatures like woolly mammoths.
It is widely acknowledged that during this time, anatomically modern humans started to move out of Africa and assimilate coeval Eurasian populations, including Neanderthals, through interbreeding.
By 12 000 years ago, modern humans occupied the whole of the Eurasian continent including the remotest regions of northeast Siberia.
They found two major lineages responsible for almost all modern horses: Arabian horses from the Arabian Peninsula and the now - extinct Turkoman horses from the Eurasian Steppe, the researchers report today in Current Biology.
By comparing the ancient genome to DNA from modern Africans, the team have been able to show that not only do East African populations today have as much as 25 % Eurasian ancestry from this event, but that African populations in all corners of the continent — from the far West to the South — have at least 5 % of their genome traceable to the Eurasian migration.
According to new research, nomadic horse culture — famously associated with Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes — can trace its roots back more than 3,000 years in the eastern Eurasian Steppes, in the territory of modern Mongolia.
They conclude that, like most other living Eurasians, Aborigines descend from a single group of modern humans who swept out of Africa 50,000 to 60,000 years ago and then spread in different directions.
Because most researchers agree that Neandertals were not as cognitively advanced as modern humans, Lahn and his coauthors suggest that the haplogroup might have made Homo sapiens better able to adapt to the Eurasian environments that Neandertals had occupied long before modern newcomers arrived.
The genome sequence of a 24,000 - year - old Siberian individual has provided a key piece of the puzzle by demonstrating genomic signatures that are basal to present - day western Eurasians and close to modern Native Americans.
The fossils included characteristics from late archaic / early modern humans, Middle Pleistocene Eurasians, and western Eurasian Neanderthals, hinting at possible intermixing.
The fossils, which was labeled «archaic Homo,» share combined features of Neanderthals, earlier eastern Eurasian humans and modern humans.
By comparing the ancient genome to DNA from modern Africans, the team have been able to show that East African populations today have as much as 25 % Eurasian ancestry from this event.
DNA from 4,500 - year - old Ethiopian skull reveals a large migratory wave of West Eurasians into the Horn of Africa around 3,000 years ago had a genetic impact on modern populations across East Africa.
To evaluate these options, the manuscript contrasts sequence information from Egyptian and Ethiopian genomes and with a panel of Eurasians, showing that Egyptians are the modern Africa population harboring the strongest signal of that past migration and, hence, favoring a northern exit as the most likely route out of Africa.