Better support for a small effective population size of Neandertals and a long shared history of Neandertals and Denisovans [Biological Sciences]

Rogers et al. (1) compare the sharing of derived alleles among the genomes of Africans, non-Africans, a Neandertal, and a Denisovan to infer the demographic history of archaic humans. They estimate that the effective population size (Ne) of Neandertals was ∼15,000 individuals and that Neandertals and Denisovans separated from each...

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