How Neanderthals Ended Up With Human Chromosomes

This week we learned that the Neanderthal/Denisovan/Human family tree is pretty complicated, thanks to a close look into some Neanderthals' Y chromosomes.

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Sources:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1653
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1565
https://www.inverse.com/science/neanderthal-denisovan-y-chromosome-study
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/y-chromosome-from-early-modern-humans-replaced-neanderthal-y-67963
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(19)30218-1.pdf

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