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Archaic humans

Four makes a party

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Adding the first high-quality Neanderthal sequence to genomic comparisons of archaic and modern humans sheds light on gene flow, population structure and adaptation, and suggests the existence of an unknown group. See Article p.43

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Figure 1: Gene flow from an unknown ancient population.

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  1. Ewan Birney is at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.,

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  2. Jonathan K. Pritchard is in the Departments of Genetics and Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5120, USA.,

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