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by thaumasiotes
1789 days ago
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> However, most of those variants will have existed in both the human and neanderthal populations, so they should count neither as uniquely human nor neanderthal (known as Incomplete Lineage Sorting, or ILS) This makes a hash of the headline "Thanks to interbreeding, just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans" -- this would be just as true if there had never been any interbreeding between "modern humans" and their various sister lineages. |
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