Sentences with phrase «say paleogeneticist»
The DNA shows an unexpected hereditary link to the Denisovans, Neandertals» genetic cousins that lived in East Asia at least 44,000 years ago, say paleogeneticist Matthias Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues.
https://www.sciencenews.org/
Not much nuclear DNA survives in such ancient fossils, say paleogeneticist Matthias Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues.
«The paper is very exciting because it is the first genome to fill a really big gap, both geographically and temporally, in East Asia,» says paleogeneticist Pontus Skoglund of Harvard Medical School in Boston, who was not involved in the work.
«The continuity is remarkable,» says paleogeneticist Carles Lalueza - Fox of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, who was not involved with the work.
«The two Devil's Gate Cave samples are hunter - gatherers and thus the results say little about the spread of the [fully developed] agricultural package,» says paleogeneticist David Reich of Harvard University.
Not exact matches
«I find it interesting that... some of the early modern colonizers of Eurasia were successful while others were not,» says co-author Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
«This suggests that it was quite a different disease in the Bronze Age from what it was in medieval times,» says Johannes Krause, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who was not involved with the study.
«It is clearly great that [genetic] data has become available» from these ancient groups, says Marie - France Deguilloux, a paleogeneticist from the University of Bordeaux in France, who adds that having such DNA sequences is «crucial» to tracing the spread of farming to Europe.
The sample of 15 skeletons from Syria is too small to represent all of the early Middle Eastern farming populations, says Guido Brandt, a paleogeneticist at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany.
«This is the genetic recipe for being a modern human,» says team leader Svante Pääbo, a paleogeneticist at the institute.